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Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis

Mycobacterium chimaera, a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex, is a slow-growing, nontuberculous mycobacterium associated with outbreaks in cardiac-surgery patients supported on heart-lung machines. We report a case of an elderly woman on chronic prednisone who presented with a six-month histo...

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Autores principales: Moutsoglou, Daphne M., Merritt, Frank, Cumbler, Ethan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28523197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9893743