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Case Reports
. 2013 Jun;51(6):1993-5.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00462-13. Epub 2013 Apr 3.

First case of pulmonary disease caused by a Mycobacterium avium complex strain of presumed veterinary origin in an adult human patient

Su-Young Kim  1 , Sung Jae Shin, Nam Yong Lee, Won-Jung Koh
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First case of pulmonary disease caused by a Mycobacterium avium complex strain of presumed veterinary origin in an adult human patient

Su-Young Kim et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Jun.

Abstract

We report the first case of pulmonary disease caused by a strain of Mycobacterium avium complex of presumed veterinary origin in an elderly patient. All serial isolates were identified by multilocus sequence analysis based on rpoB, hsp65, and 16S rRNA fragments. Disease persisted despite macrolide-based combination antibiotic therapy.

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Fig 1
A 77-year-old man with Mycobacteriumavium avium complex strain infection of presumed veterinary origin. (A) Chest radiograph shows a large cavity in the right upper lobe (black arrow) and a segmented consolidation in the left upper lobe (white arrow). (B) Chest computed tomography (CT) scan shows a large cavity in the right upper lobe (black arrow). (C) Chest CT scan shows multiple segmented consolidations in both lungs (white arrows).
Fig 2
Fig 2
The phylogenetic position of isolate SMC1 and other species belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex based on partial rpoB gene sequences. This tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining method. The percentages indicated at nodes represent bootstrap levels supported by 1,000 resampled data sets. Scale bars indicate evolutionary distance in base substitutions per site.
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