Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a Patient with Bronchiectasis

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

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Byeong-Ho Jeong¹  Jae-Uk Song¹  Wooyoul Kim¹  Seo Goo Han¹  Yousang Ko¹  Junwhi Song¹  Boksoon Chang¹  Goohyeon Hong¹  Su-Young Kim¹  Go-Eun Choi²  Sung Jae Shin³  Won-Jung Koh¹ 

[1] Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine;Department of Microbiology, Chungnam National University College of Medicine;Department of Microbiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine

关键词: Nontuberculous Mycobacteria;    Bronchiectasis;    Mycobacterium Infections;    Nontuberculous;   

DOI  :  10.4046/trd.2013.74.4.187

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

【 摘 要 】

We report a rare case of lung disease caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a previously healthy woman. A 54-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to chronic cough and sputum. A computed tomography scan of the chest revealed bilateral bronchiectasis with bronchiolitis in the right middle lobe and the lingular division of the left upper lobe. Nontuberculous mycobacteria were isolated twice from three expectorated sputum specimens. All isolates were identified as M. lentiflavum by multilocus sequence analysis based on rpoB , hsp65 , and 16S rRNA fragments. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first documented case of M. lentiflavum lung disease in an immunocompetent adult in Korea.

【 授权许可】

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