Infected spontaneous chylothorax

Sunil Natrajan; Khaled O. Hadeli; Stuart F. Quan

doi:10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00179-X

Infected spontaneous chylothorax

Sunil Natrajan, Khaled O. Hadeli, Stuart F. Quan

Arizona Respiratory Center

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Abstract

Infection of a chylothorax is thought not to occur because chyle is inherently bacteriostatic. We report a case of an infected chylothorax occurring in an immunocompromised patient with pneumonia. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such a case.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	31-32
Number of pages	2
Journal	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00179-X
State	Published - Jan 1 1998

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Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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