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Antiprotozoal and antimycobacterial activities of Persea americana seeds [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Persea americana seeds are widely used in traditional Mexican medicine to treat rheumatism, asthma, infectious processes as well as diarrhea and dysentery caused by intestinal parasites.
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Disseminated CutaneousMycobacterium ChelonaeInfection
Cancer Control, 2000 Over the last two decades, a rising proportion of mycobacterial infections have been caused by nontuberculous species such as Mycobacterium chelonae.1-3 Belonging to the M. fortuitum complex,4 M. chelonae is an acidfast bacillus (AFB) that grows rapidly compared with the more common M. tuberculosis.
C L, Kane +3 more
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Mycobacterium chelonae empyema with bronchopleural fistula in an immunocompetent patient
Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2009 Mycobacterium chelonae is one of the rapidly growing mycobacteria that rarely cause lung disease . M chelonae more commonly causes skin and soft tissue infections primarily in immunosuppressed individuals.
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Mycobacterium chelonae Infection After a Cat Bite: A Rare Case Report
Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2022 Lei Zhang,1 Yixiong Li,2 Hao Yang,1 Yunzhu Mu,1 Jingjing Jiang,1 Xi Duan1 1Department of Dermatology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Anorectal, The First ...
Zhang L +5 more
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Retrospective Study of Clinical and Genetic Profiles of Alpha‐Mannosidosis Patients From the UAE
JIMD Reports, Volume 66, Issue 2, March 2025.ABSTRACT Alpha‐mannosidosis (AM; OMIM 248500) is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by mutations in MAN2B1, which codes for the lysosomal alpha‐mannosidase enzyme (LAMAN; EC:3.2.1.24). Clinical characteristics include developmental delay, hearing impairment, and recurrent infections.
Ali K. Saad +6 more
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Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Caused by Mycobacterium chelonae: More Common Than Expected?
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2019 Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacterium, which causes infections of the human skin and soft tissue. Despite an increasing incidence of such infections, patients are often misdiagnosed.
Ugur Uslu +3 more
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JEADV Clinical Practice, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 262-268, March 2025.Capsule SummaryMycobacterium chelonae infections are rare but significant, especially in immunocompromised patients, often leading to delayed diagnosis due to nonspecific clinical signs and challenges in culturing the pathogen. We report five cases of M. chelonae cutaneous infections, four of whom were on immunosuppressive therapy.
Celine De Krock +6 more
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Pulmonary Resection for Mycobacterium Chelonae Infection
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2012 Mycobacterium chelonae lung infection is rare and has long been recognized as an enigmatic infection resistant to medical therapy. Recently, we encountered a patient who underwent pulmonary resection for Mycobacterium chelonae infection. A 46-year-old man with no medical history was found to have an abnormal shadow in the left upper lung field on chest
Taichiro, Goto +4 more
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Reconsidering the Diagnosis: Abnormal Sweat Chloride Tests in Non‐CF Bronchiectasis
Pediatric Pulmonology, Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2025.ABSTRACT Introduction While the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF) is often straightforward and reliant on correlation between genetic testing and clinical signs and symptoms, there is a subset where the distinction is not nearly as clearcut. This has previously been reported in patients identified through newborn screening but not meeting full CF ...
Reyna L. Huang +3 more
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Uveitis with occult choroiditis due to Mycobacterium kansasii: limitations of interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) tests (case report and mini-review on ocular non-tuberculous mycobacteria and IGRA cross-reactivity) [PDF]
, 2018 Ocular tuberculosis is difficult to diagnose but should be suspected when uveitis fails to respond to inflammation suppressive therapy. Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) represent a substantial help to diagnose suspected ocular tuberculosis ...
Herbort, Carl +2 more
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