Volume 28, Number 11—November 2022
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Severe Pneumonia Caused by Corynebacterium striatum in Adults, Seoul, South Korea, 2014–2019
Yun Woo Lee1, Jin Won Huh1, Sang-Bum Hong, Jiwon Jung, Min Jae Kim, Yong Pil Chong, Sung-Han Kim, Heungsup Sung, Kyung-Hyun Do, Sang-Oh Lee, Chae-Man Lim, Yang Soo Kim, Younsuck Koh, and Sang-Ho Choi
Table 3
Additional pathogens detected among adult patients with severe Corynebacterium striatum pneumonia and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia, Seoul, South Korea, 2014–2019*
| Pathogens | No. (%) co-infecting pathogens |
p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total, n = 130 | C. striatum, n = 27 | MRSA, n = 103 | ||
| Any |
50 (38.5) |
13 (48.1) |
37 (35.9) |
0.25 |
| Other bacteria | 28 (21.5) | 2 (7.4) | 26 (25.2)† | 0.045 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Escherichia coli | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Haemophilus influenzae | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Citrobacter freundii | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Enterobacter cloacae | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Elizabethkingia meningosepticum | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Klebsiella aerogenes | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
| Virus | 24 (18.5) | 9 (33.3)‡ | 15 (14.6)§ | 0.047 |
| Influenza virus | 8 | 4 | 4 | |
| Influenza virus A | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Influenza virus B | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Parainfluenza virus type 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Rhinovirus | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Adenovirus | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Respiratory syncytial virus | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Respiratory syncytial virus A | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Respiratory syncytial virus B | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Human coronavirus | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 229E | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| OC43/HKU1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Human metapneumovirus | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bocavirus | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Enterovirus |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
| Fungus | 4 (3.1) | 4 (14.8)¶ | 0 | <0.01 |
| Aspergillus species | 4 (3.1) | 4 (14.8) | 0 | |
| Pneumocystis jirovecii | 1 (0.8) | 1 (3.7) | 0 | |
*Categories of co-infection were not mutually exclusive; some cases were associated with >2 categories of pathogens. †Three patients were co-infected with 2 bacteria: H. influenzae and S. pneumoniae; E. coli and K. pneumoniae; and A. baumannii and K. pneumoniae. ‡One patient was co-infected with influenza A virus and human metapneumovirus. §One patient was co-infected with bocavirus and rhinovirus. ¶One patient was co-infected with Aspergillus species and P. jirovecii.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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