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Case Reports
. 2010 Sep;16(9):1486-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1609.100433.

Acute cervical lymphadenitis caused by Mycobacterium florentinum

Salma S Syed, Omolara Aderinboye, Kimberly E Hanson, Eric D Spitzer
Case Reports

Acute cervical lymphadenitis caused by Mycobacterium florentinum

Salma S Syed et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Sep.
No abstract available

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Computed tomography scan of the neck of a 3-year-old girl, showing right lateral retropharyngeal abscess (white arrows) and enlarged bilateral posterior cervical lymph nodes with low attenuation of a right cervical lymph node (black arrow), consistent with atypical mycobacterium adenitis.
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