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Risk factors of laryngeal cryptococcosis: A case report
Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2019 Cryptococcal infections are acquired by inhalation of encapsulated yeast cells or basidiospores. While Cryptococcus has a propensity to invade the lungs and central nervous system, other sites can be affected.
Orlando Quintero +5 more
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Skin and soft tissue infection by Mycobacterium intracellulare in an immunocompetent patient
IDCases, 2020 Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections still represent a large group of insidious diseases hard to deal with. Traditionally, immunocompromised patients suffer from NTM infections, especially with respiratory involvement or disseminated diseases due
Alessio Pampaloni +9 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 The single and comparative intradermal tuberculin tests (SITT and CITT) are official in vivo tests for bovine tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis using bovine and avian purified protein derivatives (PPD-B and PPD-A).
Leire Fernández-Veiga +13 more
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Dermatologica Sinica, 2013 Disseminated cutaneous nontuberculous mycobacteria infection is rare in immunocompetent hosts. We report a case of Mycobacterium intracellulare infection in an immunocompetent patient presenting with simultaneously developing multiple asymptomatic ...
Yen-Yun Tsai +3 more
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Epidemiology of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Tuberculosis suspects, Southwest of China, 2017-2022
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 ObjectivesThis study summarizes the epidemiological characteristics, species distribution, and drug sensitivity of clinical nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolates at the Public Health Clinical Center of Chengdu, China, from January 2017 to December ...
Dong-Mei Wang +4 more
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General Overview on Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Biofilms, and Human Infection [PDF]
, 2015 Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are emergent pathogens whose importance in human health has been growing. After being regarded mainly as etiological agents of opportunist infections in HIV patients, they have also been recognized as etiological agents ...
Faria, Sónia +2 more
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"Why me, why now?" Using clinical immunology and epidemiology to explain who gets nontuberculous mycobacterial infection [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: The prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease is rising. An understanding of known risk factors for disease sheds light on the immunological and physical barriers to infection, and how and why they may be overcome.
Lake, MA +3 more
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Case Reports in Medicine, 2012 Actinomyces and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare are facultative intracellular organisms, members of the bacterial order actinomycetales. Although Actinomyces can behave as copathogen when anatomic barriers are compromised, its coinfection with ...
Yuria Ablanedo-Terrazas +2 more
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Molecules, 2019 Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is a serious disease mainly caused by M. avium and M. intracellulare. Although the incidence of MAC infection is increasing worldwide, only a few agents are clinically used, and their therapeutic effects are limited ...
Kanji Hosoda +3 more
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Dry pleurisy complicating solitary pulmonary nodules caused by Mycobacterium avium: a case report [PDF]
, 2015 INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease presenting as a solitary pulmonary nodule (MAC-SPN) is often asymptomatic, is more common in middle to old age, and mimics lung cancer or tuberculoma.
Hiroaki Sugiura +14 more
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