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Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2023 Background Mycobacterium abscessus is a virulent human pathogen. Treatment is complex and often poorly tolerated with suboptimal rates of eradication, highlighting the need for improved therapeutics.
C. Mingora +12 more
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Diagnostics, 2022 In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory infections are of various aetiology, predominantly viral and bacterial. However, due to structural and immunological changes within the respiratory system, such patients are also prone ...
M. Franczuk +7 more
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ERJ Open Research, 2022 Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are drugs growingly employed in the treatment of cancers, but there are still uncertainties about their possible role in the risk of developing nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections.
A. Lombardi +5 more
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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020 In industrialized countries, Mycobacterium avium complex and other nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are major causes of opportunistic infection-related deaths in HIV patients.
Cho-Han Chiang +6 more
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Lenvatinib-Associated Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: A Case Report. [PDF]
Respirol Case RepThis article presents a case of a hepatocellular carcinoma patient who developed pulmonary NTM infection after long‐term lenvatinib therapy, as detected by next‐generation sequencing (NGS). Symptoms improved and follow‐up CT showed resolution after discontinuation of lenvatinib for 2 months.
Wang Q, Du L, Wang Y, Zhang L.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) cause pulmonary and extrapulmonary infections in susceptible persons. To characterize the epidemiology of skin and soft tissue (SST) and disseminated extrapulmonary infections caused by NTM in the United States, we used ...
E. Ricotta +5 more
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International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2021 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) remain the leading causes of lung disease and mortality worldwide. Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and its receptor (IFN-γR) play a key role in mediating immunity against Mtb and NTM.
J. Ghanavi +3 more
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First case report of Mycobacterium canariasense native mitral valve endocarditis
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022 Mycobacterium canariasense is a relatively newly discovered, rapidly growing nontuberculous Mycobacterium first described in 17 patients with fever in the Canary Islands, Spain, in 2004.
Kowthar Salman Hassan +8 more
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Pulmonary Infection Caused by an Unusual, Slowly Growing Nontuberculous Mycobacterium [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2001 ABSTRACT Mycobacterium triplex , a recently described slowly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium, was isolated from a Finnish patient with pulmonary mycobacteriosis. The disease was successfully treated with antimycobacterial drugs.
Sini Suomalainen +6 more
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Infection with nontuberculous mycobacterium after injection of adulterated silicone fluid [PDF]
Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2004 A 57-year-old woman presented with a predominantly right-sided cellulitic area of her buttock after receiving multiple bilateral silicone injections in the buttocks. The workup revealed subcutaneous infection with rapidly growing mycobacteria. Surgical management and etiologic factors are discussed, and a review of the literature is presented.
Alfred T Mitchell +3 more
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