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FLORES SANDI, Grettchen. Gluteus abscess due to RhodococcusEqui: atypical presentation of emerging disease. Rev. costarric. salud pública [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.2, pp.106-117. ISSN 1409-1429.

Rhodococcusequi, a bacterium isolated mainly in foals, is currently considered an emerging zoonotic pathogen in humans, most of them immunocompromised, coinciding with the HIV epidemic and advances in transplant medicine and cancer chemotherapy, which justifies the review on its pathogenesis, clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment. More frequent in men than in women, the onset of infections is usually insidious and the symptoms they present vary according to the site of infection, the respiratory disease, characterized by necrotizing pneumonia is the most common manifestation, and tends to follow a subacute course , while immunocompetent people are affected with low frequency and usually have localized disease. Infections of the skin or soft tissues, including abscesses, are rare even in immunocompromised hosts and are usually related to environmental contamination. The microbiology laboratory plays a key role in the identification of the organism, since it can be confused with normal flora of the skin. The case presented corresponds to an adult immunocompetent patient, with surgical wound infection by R equiafter cosmetic surgery, required antibiotic treatment, multiple surgical washes and debridements, and abscess drainage, with improvement of the infectious process. This case suggests the clinical importance of the precise identification of unusual pathogens, capable of obstructing the normal evolution of a surgical process and of producing a high cost of health care and the scope of preventive measures related to health surveillance.

Palabras clave : Rhodococcusequi; Immunocompetent Patient; Gluteus abscess; Emerging disease.

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