Mycobacterium abscessus ssp. abscessus infection progressing to empyema from vertebral osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report

BACKGROUND: Pleural involvement by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in patients without distinct pulmonary disease is extremely rare. Vertebral osteomyelitis (VO) with or without pulmonary disease is also a rare clinical presentation of NTM infection, and pleural spread of NTM from VO has not been...

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Autores principales: Kadota, Naoki, Shinohara, Tsutomu, Hino, Hiroyuki, Goda, Yuichiro, Murase, Yoshiro, Mitarai, Satoshi, Ogushi, Fumitaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6534929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31126264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0860-4

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