Severe Pulmonary Disease Caused by Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis

Severe Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis-pulmonary disease was diagnosed in a 68-year-old immunocompetent woman in Greece; the disease was initially treated as tuberculosis. The patient responded favorably to a new treatment regimen of azithromycin, amikacin, moxifloxacin, and linezolid. Complete sympto...

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Autores principales: Manika, Katerina, Kontos, Fanourios, Papavasileiou, Apostolos, Papaventsis, Dimitrios, Sionidou, Maria, Kioumis, Ioannis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33622489
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2703.191648
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author Manika, Katerina
Kontos, Fanourios
Papavasileiou, Apostolos
Papaventsis, Dimitrios
Sionidou, Maria
Kioumis, Ioannis
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description Severe Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis-pulmonary disease was diagnosed in a 68-year-old immunocompetent woman in Greece; the disease was initially treated as tuberculosis. The patient responded favorably to a new treatment regimen of azithromycin, amikacin, moxifloxacin, and linezolid. Complete symptom resolution and radiologic improvement resulted.
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spelling pubmed-79206532021-03-04 Severe Pulmonary Disease Caused by Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis Manika, Katerina Kontos, Fanourios Papavasileiou, Apostolos Papaventsis, Dimitrios Sionidou, Maria Kioumis, Ioannis Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter Severe Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis-pulmonary disease was diagnosed in a 68-year-old immunocompetent woman in Greece; the disease was initially treated as tuberculosis. The patient responded favorably to a new treatment regimen of azithromycin, amikacin, moxifloxacin, and linezolid. Complete symptom resolution and radiologic improvement resulted. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7920653/ /pubmed/33622489 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2703.191648 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Severe Pulmonary Disease Caused by Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920653/
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