Nontuberculous mycobacterial ocular infections--comparing the clinical and microbiological characteristics between Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium massiliense.

To analyze the clinical characteristics of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) ocular infections and the species-specific in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility.In 2000 to 2011 at the National Taiwan University Hospital, multilocus sequencing of rpoB, hsp65 and secA was used to identify NTM isolates f...

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Main Authors: Hsiao-Sang Chu, Shan-Chwen Chang, Elizabeth P Shen, Fung-Rong Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4291221?pdf=render