Chronic Indolent Community-acquired
Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas
Infection in an Immunocompetent
Patient- A Case Report
Published: February 1, 2022 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2022/52806.16026
Gaurav Karna, Shridhar Pattar, Prasan Kumar Panda, Ramit Shah
1. Resident, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
2. Resident, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
4. Resident, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Correspondence
Prasan Kumar Panda,
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
E-mail: motherprasanna@rediffmail.com
Pseudomonas is an uncommon cause of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent patients. It is an opportunistic pathogen resulting in serious infection in patients who are hospitalised, mechanically ventilated, or immunocompromised. Here, authors reported a case of 47-year-old male, forest worker without any co-morbidities presented with a history of chronic cough, fever, and shortness of breath complicated with pseudohaemoptysis for 45 days. This patient was admitted and treated as a lower respiratory tract infection. Work-up for tuberculosis, invasive fungal balls was negative but sputum culture revealed Pseudomonas aeruginosa growth. This case report demonstrates a rare Pseudomonas infection which can also cause chronic indolent respiratory illness in immunocompetent.
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