Tropheryma whipplei-induced plastic bronchitis in children: a case report

• Main Authors: Xuefeng Jin (Author), Caiyun Zhang (Author), Chao Chen (Author), Xiaoning Wang (Author), Jing Dong (Author), Yuanyuan He (Author), Peng Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This article reports a case of a 7-year-old child with severe pneumonia whose chest CT showed pulmonary consolidation, and bronchoscopy revealed plastic bronchitis. The metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) of the pulmonary lavage fluid suggested the infection of Tropheryma whipplei (T whippl...