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Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection in Patients with Neurosurgical Hardware: Two Cases and A Review of the Literature

Central nervous system infections with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are rare but have been increasing in frequency. A small fraction of these infections are related to surgical hardware, with approximately 20 cases reported. Patients typically present with an indolent course but can rapidly det...

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Autores principales: Padmanaban, Varun, Hussein, Rezhan, Rizk, Elias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7179971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32337124
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7398