Empyema caused by Eikenella halliae diagnosed by metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) after pulmonary surgery: A case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Empyema is one of the complications of pulmonary surgery for lung cancer, the incidence of which is not very high, but in severe cases, it can even lead to death, and it is always difficult to diagnose the cause by conventional methods.

Case presentation

In this study, we report a clinical case of empyema caused by Eikenella halliae after pulmonary surgery in a 55-year-old man. He had a fever, cough, and expectoration for 3 days and was diagnosed with right hydropneumothorax and empyema, pneumonia, postoperative malignant tumor of the right lower lobe (adenocarcinoma), and hypertension. The microbiology laboratory reported Gram-negative bacteria in pleural effusion, which was preliminarily considered as Eikenella based on culture and 16S rRNA sequenc

SUBMITTER: Huang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9550235 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature