Janira Navarro spotlights Legionella micdadei as a gram-negative organism that can stain weakly acid-fast, a diagnostic pitfall relevant in immunosuppressed pneumonia workups.
The only gram-negative bacterium that can stain weakly acid-fast?
Legionella micdadei
Pathogen known to cause pneumonia in immunosuppressed patients.
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