KEGG DISEASE: Rhodococcus equi infection

DISEASE: Rhodococcus equi infection

Entry

H01021                      Disease

Name

Rhodococcus equi infection

Description

Rhodococcus equi is an aerobic, gram-positive bacillus. R. equi infection is rare in humans, but it can cause potentially fatal disease in immunocompromised patients. Although the clinical spectrum of R. equi infection is broad, pulmonary involvement is a predominant feature in most cases.

Category

Bacterial infectious disease

Brite

Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Mycobacterial diseases
   1B2Z  Mycobacterial diseases, unspecified
    H01021  Rhodococcus equi infection
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
  Infections caused by actinobacteria
   H01021  Rhodococcus equi infection

Pathogen

Rhodococcus equi [GN:req]

Other DBs

ICD-11:

1B2Z

Reference

PMID:20954468

Authors

Guyssens V, Vandekerckhove L, Colle I, De Rudder P, Blots S, Vogelaers D

Title

Invasive infection with Rhodococcus equi--two case reports and review of literature.

Journal