PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - MJ Linares AU - A Lopez-Encuentra AU - S Perea TI - Chronic pneumonia caused by Rhodococcus equi in a patient without impaired immunity AID - 10.1183/09031936.97.10010248 DP - 1997 Jan 01 TA - European Respiratory Journal PG - 248--250 VI - 10 IP - 1 4099 - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/10/1/248.short 4100 - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/10/1/248.full SO - Eur Respir J1997 Jan 01; 10 AB - A 48 year old, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative, immunocompetent male patient had a chronic progressive pulmonary infiltrate, without radiological cavitation, in the middle lobe of the right lung produced by Rhodococcus equi. He reported direct contact with a diseased dog. The patient was diagnosed by thoracotomy and treated by lobectomy. After 16 months of follow-up, the patient was asymptomatic and had neither recurrence nor immunological disturbances.