Mycobacterium chelonae-abscessus Complex Associated with Sinopulmonary Disease, Northeastern USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Members of the Mycobacterium chelonae-abscessus complex represent Mycobacterium species that cause invasive infections in immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts. We report the detection of a new pathogen that had been misidentified as M.
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Mycobacterium chelonae associated with tumor-like skin and oral masses in farmed Russian sturgeons (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) [PDF]
, 2014 Peer ...
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IDCases, 2020 Mycobacterium chelonae can cause chronic skin, soft-tissue or bone infections.and is often associated with the immunocompromised state.We describe a case of a 58-year-old male patient with myasthenia gravis, chronically immunosuppressed, with a four ...
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When Should Statins Be Stopped?
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2021 Mycobacterium chelonae is a non-tuberculous mycobacterium that can cause skin infections in immunocompetent individuals. We report a case of skin infection by this agent in a woman with dyslipidaemia, that culminated in statin-induced rhabdomyolysis due ...
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Comparison of sample preparation methods, instrumentation platforms, and contemporary commercial databases for identification of clinically relevant mycobacteria by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization - Time of flight mass spectrometry [PDF]
, 2015 When mycobacteria are recovered in clinical specimens, timely species-level identification is required to establish the clinical significance of the isolate and facilitate optimization of antimicrobial therapy. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–
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Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2020 Vimal Jhaveri +4 more
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atpE gene as a new useful specific molecular target to quantify Mycobacterium in environmental samples [PDF]
, 2013 International audienceBackgroundThe environment is the likely source of many pathogenic mycobacterial species but detection of mycobacteria by bacteriological tools is generally difficult and time-consuming.
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Revista de Saúde Pública, 2008 Outbreaks of rapidly growing mycobacteria have been occasionally described. The article reports an outbreak of cutaneous abscesses due to Mycobacterium chelonae following mesotherapy in Lima, Peru. From December 2004 through January 2005, 35 subjects who
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Gene replacement in Mycobacterium chelonae: application to the construction of porin knock-out mutants. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing mycobacterial opportunistic pathogen closely related to Mycobacterium abscessus that causes cornea, skin and soft tissue infections in humans. Although M.
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A truncated lipoglycan from mycobacteria with altered immunological properties [PDF]
, 2010 Maintenance of cell-wall integrity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential and is the target of several antitubercular drugs. For example, ethambutol targets arabinogalactan and lipoarabinomannan (LAM) biosynthesis through the inhibition of several ...
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