TY - JOUR T1 - Hidden Diagnosis of Tuberculous Pleurisy Masked by Concomitant <em>Pseudomonas oryzihabitans</em> Bacteremia JF - Respiratory Care SP - 298 LP - 301 DO - 10.4187/respcare.01103 VL - 57 IS - 2 AU - Te-Yu Lin AU - Shih-Wei Wu AU - Gen-Min Lin AU - Yu-Guang Chen Y1 - 2012/02/01 UR - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/57/2/298.abstract N2 - The clinical presentations of tuberculous pleurisy are usually nonspecific and have an insidious course, thus resulting in diagnostic challenges. Pseudomonas oryzihabitans is a nonfermenting, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, Gram-negative bacillus that has rarely been encountered as a human pathogen. We present the case of a 30-year-old male patient who exhibited intermittent fever despite antibiotic treatment for Pseudomonas oryzihabitans bacteremia for 6 days. Tuberculous pleurisy was finally diagnosed by histopathologic and microbiologic studies. He recovered after a 2-week antibiotic course and 6-month antituberculosis treatment. ER -