This patient has NAPDH Oxidase deficiency which causes chronic granulation disease. You can trap the bacteria, but you can't make the ROS to kill it. So you just live with a bunch of full trash bags...of bacteria you collected... Most common bugs are catalase positive.
S. aureus; Escherichia coli, Candida, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Aspergillus;
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This patient has NAPDH Oxidase deficiency which causes chronic granulation disease. You can trap the bacteria, but you can't make the ROS to kill it. So you just live with a bunch of full trash bags...of bacteria you collected... Most common bugs are catalase positive. S. aureus; Escherichia coli, Candida, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Aspergillus;