Lung abscess due to Corynebacterium equi in a renal transplant recipient.

  • 28 May 1977
    • journal article
    • case report
    • Vol. 1  (22) , 817-9
Abstract
A case of Corynebacterium equi infection in a renal transplant recipient is reported. This not uncommon pathogen of farm animals caused a lung abscess in a graft recipient who had received continuous immunosuppression with azathioprine and prednisone for seven years. Antibiotic therapy yielded radiological improvement, although the patient died from other causes. C. equi joins a growing list of rare opportunistic organisms which may cause disease in subjects who have received transplants.

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