| Branhamella CASE 1 • A 56 year old man has increasing cough and fever for 2 days. The cough is productive of yellow sputum. He is a cigarette smoker, and he has had two previous episodes of pneumonia in the past. In addition, he has a regular morning cough and produces 2 tablespoons of sputum every morning. • A chest xray shows a patchy infiltrate in the right middle lobe. A Gram stain of the sputum show numerous neutrophils and a predominance of scattered Gram-negative diplococci. A sputum culture on chocolate agar grows these bacteria, but they are oxidase-negative. Questions: 1. Who is a risk for pulmonary infection with Branhamella catarrhalis?
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