Mycobacterium szulgai pulmonary infection in a woman with anorexia nervosa

A 40-year-old woman with severe anorexia nervosa was found to have a bilateral pulmonary infection with rare atypical mycobacterium Mycobacterium szulgai. Of note, she had no preexisting structural lung disease or history of tuberculosis, smoking, or HIV. Current data suggest that both impaired cell...

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Autores principales: Shah, Kamini, Siglin, Jonathan, Patel, Devang M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7332519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32642432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00883
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description A 40-year-old woman with severe anorexia nervosa was found to have a bilateral pulmonary infection with rare atypical mycobacterium Mycobacterium szulgai. Of note, she had no preexisting structural lung disease or history of tuberculosis, smoking, or HIV. Current data suggest that both impaired cell-mediated immunity and altered respiratory mechanics are risk factors for mycobacterial infection in patients with anorexia nervosa.
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spelling pubmed-73325192020-07-07 Mycobacterium szulgai pulmonary infection in a woman with anorexia nervosa Shah, Kamini Siglin, Jonathan Patel, Devang M. IDCases Article A 40-year-old woman with severe anorexia nervosa was found to have a bilateral pulmonary infection with rare atypical mycobacterium Mycobacterium szulgai. Of note, she had no preexisting structural lung disease or history of tuberculosis, smoking, or HIV. Current data suggest that both impaired cell-mediated immunity and altered respiratory mechanics are risk factors for mycobacterial infection in patients with anorexia nervosa. Elsevier 2020-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7332519/ /pubmed/32642432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00883 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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