A Mysterious Gram-Positive Rods

We encountered a patient with a history of intravenous drug use presenting with fever, malaise and nausea who was found to have cavitary lung lesions. Unexpectedly, gram positive rods grew out on day five on multiple blood cultures, which were later identified as Mycobacterium fortuitum. The patient...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Natsag, Javzandulam, Min, Zaw, Hamad, Yasir, Alkhalil, Bassel, Rahman, Atiq, Williams, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3432333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22957282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/841834

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3432333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22957282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/841834

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