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A case of axillary lymphadenitis caused by Mycobacterium intracellulare in an immunocompetent patient

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2019
Axillary lymphadenitis caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria is rare and has been reported in immunocompromised hosts. Herein, we report the case of a 67-year-old man without immunodeficiency who developed right axillary lymphadenitis caused by ...
Junko Itano, Kadoaki Ohashi, Satoru Senoo, Naohiro Oda, Kazuya Nishii, Akihiko Taniguchi, Nobuaki Miyahara, Yoshinobu Maeda, Katsuyuki Kiura   +8 more
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Characterisation of isolated from slaughter cattle in pastoral regions of Uganda [PDF]

, 2007
Background Bovine tuberculosis is a zoonotic problem in pastoral cattle and communities in Uganda. Tuberculin tests in pastoral cattle had shown a high herd but low animal prevalence, with a high proportion of avian reactors.
J Oloya, R Kazwala, A Lund, J Opuda-Asibo, B Demelash, E Skjerve, TB Johansen, B Djønne   +7 more
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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, Polina Trachuk, Michael Z. Lerner, Judy Sarungbam, Liise-anne Pirofski, Sun O. Park   +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, Salvatore Tosto, Maria Elena Locatelli, Adele Gentile, Daniele Scuderi, Andrea Marino, Federica Cosentino, Vittoria Moscatt, Giuseppe Nunnari, Bruno Cacopardo   +9 more
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Differences in skin test reactions to official and defined antigens in guinea pigs exposed to non-tuberculous and tuberculous bacteria

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, Miguel Fuertes, María V. Geijo, Bernat Pérez de Val, Enric Vidal, Lorraine Michelet, María Laura Boschiroli, Alberto Gómez-Buendía, Javier Bezos, Gareth J. Jones, Martin Vordermeier, Ramón A. Juste, Joseba M. Garrido, Iker A. Sevilla   +13 more
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Cutaneous Mycobacterium intracellulare infection presenting as multiple asymptomatic papulonodules in an immunocompetent adult: A case report and review of the literature

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, Po-Ren Hsueh, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao, Tsen-Fang 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, Hong Liu, Yong-Li Zheng, Yuan-Hong Xu, Yi Liao   +4 more
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Palatal Actinomycosis and Kaposi Sarcoma in an HIV-Infected Subject with Disseminated Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection

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, Christopher E. Ormsby, Gustavo Reyes-Terán   +2 more
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Culture-independent detection of nontuberculous mycobacteria in clinical respiratory samples [PDF]

, 2016
Culture-based detection of nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) in respiratory samples is time consuming and can be subject to overgrowth by nonmycobacterial bacteria.
Bastian, Ivan, Burr, Lucy D., Choo, Jocelyn M., Goddard, Thomas R., Leong, Lex E. X., Rogers, Geraint B., Scoleri, Gianny P., Shephard, Lisa, Thomson, Rachel M.   +8 more
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Discovery of Nosiheptide, Griseoviridin, and Etamycin as Potent Anti-Mycobacterial Agents against Mycobacterium avium Complex

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, Nobuhiro Koyama, Akihiko Kanamoto, Hiroshi Tomoda   +3 more
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