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KMID : 0383820130740040187
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
2013 Volume.74 No. 4 p.187 ~ p.190
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Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a Patient with Bronchiectasis
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Jeong Byeong-Ho
Song Jae-Uk
Kim Woo-Youl
Han Seo-Goo
Ko You-Sang
Song Jun-Whi
Chang Bok-Soon
Hong Goo-Hyeon
Kim Su-Young
Choi Go-Eun
Shin Sung-Jae
Koh Won-Jung
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Abstract
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We report a rare case of lung disease caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a previously healthy woman. A 54-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to chronic cough and sputum. A computed tomography scan of the chest revealed bilateral bronchiectasis with bronchiolitis in the right middle lobe and the lingular division of the left upper lobe. Nontuberculous mycobacteria were isolated twice from three expectorated sputum specimens. All isolates were identified as M. lentiflavum by multilocus sequence analysis based on rpoB, hsp65, and 16S rRNA fragments. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first documented case of M. lentiflavum lung disease in an immunocompetent adult in Korea.
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KEYWORD
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Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Bronchiectasis, Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous
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