Mycobacterium abscessus Pneumonia in Severe Alcoholism

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections (mycobacterium other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae) are organisms that are commonly found in the environment such as water, soil, and dust. They may form difficult to eliminate biofilms and have been reported to cause significant in...

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Autores principales: Acharya, Sudeep, Anwar, Shamsuddin, Medina, Yelizaveta, Thapa, Sakura, Glaser, Allison
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9312879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35911269
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26251
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author Acharya, Sudeep
Anwar, Shamsuddin
Medina, Yelizaveta
Thapa, Sakura
Glaser, Allison
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description Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections (mycobacterium other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae) are organisms that are commonly found in the environment such as water, soil, and dust. They may form difficult to eliminate biofilms and have been reported to cause significant infections in humans, especially in immunocompromised hosts. This article describes an interesting case of Mycobacterium abscessus in the lung.
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spelling pubmed-93128792022-07-29 Mycobacterium abscessus Pneumonia in Severe Alcoholism Acharya, Sudeep Anwar, Shamsuddin Medina, Yelizaveta Thapa, Sakura Glaser, Allison Cureus Internal Medicine Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections (mycobacterium other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae) are organisms that are commonly found in the environment such as water, soil, and dust. They may form difficult to eliminate biofilms and have been reported to cause significant infections in humans, especially in immunocompromised hosts. This article describes an interesting case of Mycobacterium abscessus in the lung. Cureus 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9312879/ /pubmed/35911269 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26251 Text en Copyright © 2022, Acharya et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Acharya, Sudeep
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Mycobacterium abscessus Pneumonia in Severe Alcoholism
title Mycobacterium abscessus Pneumonia in Severe Alcoholism
title_full Mycobacterium abscessus Pneumonia in Severe Alcoholism
title_fullStr Mycobacterium abscessus Pneumonia in Severe Alcoholism
title_full_unstemmed Mycobacterium abscessus Pneumonia in Severe Alcoholism
title_short Mycobacterium abscessus Pneumonia in Severe Alcoholism
title_sort mycobacterium abscessus pneumonia in severe alcoholism
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9312879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35911269
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26251
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