Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium malmoense in an Immunocompetent Patient

Mycobacterium malmoense is a very rare cause of lung disease in South Korea. We reported the first case of lung disease caused by M. malmoense in an immunocompetent patient. The patient was successfully treated with a 14-month course of antibiotics.

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Autores principales: Jeon, Min Kyung, Yoon, Jung A, Kim, Junhwan, Yi, Sangyoung, Sung, Heungsup, Shim, Tae Sun, Jo, Kyung-Wook
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4499603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26175789
http://dx.doi.org/10.4046/trd.2015.78.3.293
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author Jeon, Min Kyung
Yoon, Jung A
Kim, Junhwan
Yi, Sangyoung
Sung, Heungsup
Shim, Tae Sun
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spelling pubmed-44996032015-07-14 Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium malmoense in an Immunocompetent Patient Jeon, Min Kyung Yoon, Jung A Kim, Junhwan Yi, Sangyoung Sung, Heungsup Shim, Tae Sun Jo, Kyung-Wook Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul) Case Report Mycobacterium malmoense is a very rare cause of lung disease in South Korea. We reported the first case of lung disease caused by M. malmoense in an immunocompetent patient. The patient was successfully treated with a 14-month course of antibiotics. The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2015-07 2015-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4499603/ /pubmed/26175789 http://dx.doi.org/10.4046/trd.2015.78.3.293 Text en Copyright©2015. The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ It is identical to the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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Jeon, Min Kyung
Yoon, Jung A
Kim, Junhwan
Yi, Sangyoung
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Shim, Tae Sun
Jo, Kyung-Wook
Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium malmoense in an Immunocompetent Patient
title Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium malmoense in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium malmoense in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_fullStr Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium malmoense in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full_unstemmed Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium malmoense in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_short Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium malmoense in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_sort lung disease caused by mycobacterium malmoense in an immunocompetent patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4499603/
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