A case of pulmonary Mycobacterium heckeshornense infection in a healthy Japanese man

A case of pulmonary Mycobacterium heckeshornense infection in a healthy Japanese man

A 72-year-old man, healthy, smoker, with long-standing cough, was referred to our hospital and his chest X-ray (CXR) revealed a cavity lesion in the right upper lobe. Direct sputum smears, but not culture in solid medium, were positive for acid-fast bacilli (AFB) without tuberculosis DNA. The prelim...

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Main Authors: Eriko Iitoh, Masaki Tominaga, Masaki Okamoto, Yuki Sakazaki, Masayuki Nakamura, Takashi Kinoshita, Tomotaka Kawayama, Tomoaki Hoshino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
Subjects:
Mycobacterium heckeshornense
Non-tuberculous mycobacterium infection
Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry
MALDI-TOF MS
Mycobacterium xenopi
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