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Case Reports
. 2015 May;35(3):379-81.
doi: 10.3343/alm.2015.35.3.379. Epub 2015 Apr 1.

First Case of Pulmonary Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum Infection in a Patient With Bronchiectasis in Korea

Kyoung-Bo Kim  1 , Sung-Gyun Park  1 , Jae-Seok Park  2 , Wonmok Lee  1 , Jung-Sook Ha  1 , Nam-Hee Ryoo  1 , Dong-Seok Jeon  1 , Jae-Ryong Kim  1
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First Case of Pulmonary Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum Infection in a Patient With Bronchiectasis in Korea

Kyoung-Bo Kim et al. Ann Lab Med. 2015 May.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. The neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences of our Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum isolate and 19 similar microorganisms. The scale bar corresponds to 0.2% sequence divergence.
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