Isolation of Aggregatibacter aphrophilus from bronchoalveolar lavage in a paediatric patient presenting with haemoptysis

K Patas; K Douros; K N Priftis; A Ioannidis; C Nikolaou; S Chatzipanagiotou

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.01.005

Isolation of Aggregatibacter aphrophilus from bronchoalveolar lavage in a paediatric patient presenting with haemoptysis

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Feb 7:29:100509. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.01.005. eCollection 2019 May.

Authors

K Patas¹, K Douros², K N Priftis², A Ioannidis^{1

3}, C Nikolaou¹, S Chatzipanagiotou¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biopathology and Clinical Microbiology, Aeginition Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
² Children's Respiratory and Allergy Clinic, 3rd Pediatrics Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'Attikon' General University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
³ Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Orthias Artemidos & Plataion, Sparta, Greece.

Abstract

We report a rare case of non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis accompanied by protracted infection with Aggregatibacter aphrophilus in a 12-year-old boy with haemoptysis.

Keywords: Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, BAL; HACEK; bronchoscopy; non-CF bronchiectasis.