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  • Title: Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae purulent pericarditis in a child with cystic fibrosis.
    Author: Downes KJ, Abulebda K, Siracusa C, Moore R, Staat MA, Poynter SE.
    Journal: Pediatr Int; 2016 Jul; 58(7):607-9. PubMed ID: 26842501.
    Abstract:
    Early airway colonization and infection with Haemophilus influenzae in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) is common. Although the pathogenicity of non-typeable H. influenzae (NTHi) in patients with CF is controversial, this organism can cause both upper and lower respiratory tract infections. Extra-pulmonary disease, however, is rare. Purulent pericarditis is a suppurative complication of bacterial infection of the pericardial space that can arise as a result of direct extension from an adjacent infection. We describe a case of purulent pericarditis due to NTHi in a young child with CF that developed as a complication of inadequately treated bronchopneumonia.
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