Author(s)

Aurélien Delluc, Baptiste Hervier, Thi-Huong-Du Le Boutin, Alain Le Coustumier, Vincent Jarlier, Zahir Amoura, Florence Brossier

Internal Medicine and Pneumology, Cavale Blanche Hospital, Brest, France.
Internal Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.
Laboratory of Bacteriology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.
National Reference Center for Whooping Cough and Other Bordetellosis, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.

A 62-year-old woman with splenic marginal zone lymphoma presented with fever, cough and bilateral pneumonia 11 days after chemotherapy. A bronchoalveolar lavage showed numerous leukocytes and Gramnegative bacilli that were identified as Bordetella bronchiseptica in culture. An antibiotherapy with minocycline and ciprofloxacin helped her to stop coughing. This unusual micro-organism, which has mainly an animal reservoir, is a rarely cause of human infection, almost always in immunocompromised patients. The main problems in B. bronchiseptica infection are the difficulties of identification of this micro-organism and the recurrence of infection, which are a challenge for microbiologists and practitionners.

Bordetella bronchiseptica; Pneumonia; Lymphoma; Case Report

Delluc, A. , Hervier, B. , Le Boutin, T. , Le Coustumier, A. , Jarlier, V. , Amoura, Z. and Brossier, F. (2012) Bordetella bronchiseptica pneumonia in a woman with lymphoma: A case report. Open Journal of Internal Medicine, 2, 50-52. doi: 10.4236/ojim.2012.22011.