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Pleuropulmonary infection with chest wall infiltration by Eikenella corrodens.
  1. J. W. Killen,
  2. G. L. Swift,
  3. R. J. White
  1. Department of Medicine, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK.

    Abstract

    Eikenella corrodens is a facultative anaerobic bacillus which is part of the normal flora of the oral cavity and has an unusual antibiotic sensitivity for an anaerobe. The case history is presented of a young man with chest wall infiltration by Eikenella corrodens.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thx.51.8.871

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