Solve exciting clinical cases specific to your field of interest via Docplexus clinical case challenge. In today’s ‘ Infectious disease Case Challenge’ , join your fellow doctors to discuss and answer today’s question which is about ‘ Repeated Chest Infections’ . A 19-year-old boy has a history of repeated chest infections. He had problems with a cough and sputum production in the first 2 years of life and was labelled as bronchitic.
On the first two occasions, Haemophilus influenzae was grown on culture of the sputum, and on the last occasion 2 months previously , Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated from the sputum at the time of admission to hospital. He is still coughing up sputum. There is no family history of any chest disease.