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Abdominopelvic Tuberculosis Secondary to a Nontuberculous Mycobacterium in an Immunocompetent Patient

Case Reports in Medicine, 2017
Tuberculosis (TB) remained as one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide despite an overall decline in its incidence rate globally. Extrapulmonary TB is uncommon and only accounts for 10–20% of overall TB disease burden. Abdominopelvic TB is the sixth most common location of extrapulmonary TB. The symptoms and signs are often insidious and nonspecific.
Beng Kwang Ng, Kembang Aziah Yakob, Wendy Yin Ling Ng, Pei Shan Lim, Raha Abdul Rahman, Abdul Karim, Ani Amelia Zainuddin, Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy   +7 more
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Mortality after broad‐ versus narrow‐spectrum antibiotic treatment for patients with nursing and healthcare‐associated pneumonia: A nationwide retrospective cohort study

Journal of Hospital Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 5, Page 477-486, May 2026.
Visual Abstract Abstract Background Nursing and healthcare‐associated pneumonia (NHCAP) is defined as pneumonia occurring in individuals with frequent healthcare contact, such as residents of care facilities or patients with impaired activities of daily living.
Jumpei Taniguchi, Shotaro Aso, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga   +4 more
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Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease in Taiwan

, 2011
Taiwan is an endemic area for tuberculosis (TB), and the incidence of pulmonary infection caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs) is also increasing.
HSIAO, CHENG-HSIANG;LIN, YI-TING;LAI, CHIH -CHENG;HSUEH, PO-REN, 蕭正祥;林怡婷;賴志政;薛博仁   +1 more
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Biochemical and structural characterization of mycobacterial aspartyl-tRNA synthetase AspS, a promising TB drug target [PDF]

, 2014
The human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), a disease with high worldwide mortality rates. Current treatment programs are under significant threat from multi-drug and extensively-drug resistant ...
VijayaShankar Nataraj, Reynolds Robert C., Nicholas J Loman, Lloyd, AJ, Besra, Gurdyal S., Klaus Fütterer, Ballell, L, Reynolds, Robert C., Abrahams, Katherine A, Loman, Nicholas J., Hobrath Judith V., Gurcha Sudagar S., Alderwick, LJ, Abrahams, Katherine A., Gurcha, SS, Cox, Jonathan A G, Abrahams Katherine A., Hobrath, JV, Loman, Nicholas J, Carlos Alemparte, Lluis Ballell, Bhatt, Apoorva; id_orcid, Cox Jonathan A. G., Loman, NJ, Besra, GS, Reynolds, Robert C, Alemparte Carlos, Alderwick, Luke J, Gurcha, Sudagar S, Besra, Gurdyal S; id_orcid, Abrahams, KA, Besra Gurdyal S., Hobrath, Judith V, Barros, D, Robert C Reynolds, Loman Nicholas J., Bhatt, A, Ballell, Lluis, Nataraj, VijayaShankar, Lloyd, Adrian J., Apoorva Bhatt, Bhatt Apoorva, Nataraj, V, Alemparte, Carlos, Lloyd, Adrian J, Fütterer, K, Hobrath, Judith V., Veeraraghavan Usha, Cox, Jonathan A. G., Cox, JA, Barros David, Veeraraghavan, Usha, Bhatt, Apoorva, Adrian J Lloyd, Jonathan A G Cox, Usha, V, Gurdyal S Besra, David Barros, Lloyd Adrian J., Reynolds, RC, Alderwick, Luke J., Ballell Lluis, Usha Veeraraghavan, Fütterer Klaus, Barros, David, Nataraj, Vijaya-Shankar, Luke J Alderwick, Gurcha, Sudagar S., Alderwick Luke J., Judith V Hobrath, Sudagar S Gurcha, Usha, Veeraraghavan, Nataraj VijayaShankar, Alemparte, C, Fütterer, Klaus, Katherine A Abrahams   +75 more
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Antimycobacterial Activity of Laurinterol and Aplysin from Laurencia johnstonii

Marine Drugs, 2020
Marine environments represent a great opportunity for the discovery of compounds with a wide spectrum of bioactive properties. Due to their large variety and functions derived from natural selection, marine natural products may allow the identification ...
Sara García-Davis, Karla Leal-López, Carmen A. Molina-Torres, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Ana R. Díaz-Marrero, José J. Fernández, Pilar Carranza-Rosales, Ezequiel Viveros-Valdez   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Follow‐Up of Children With Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

Pediatric Pulmonology, Volume 61, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder resulting in defective ciliary motility, which leads to a spectrum of clinical manifestations, including chronic upper and lower respiratory infections, middle ear disease, situs abnormalities, congenital heart defects, and infertility.
Bruna Rubbo, Jonathan Wen Yi Ong, William Tsang, Lydia M. Newman, Jane S. Lucas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of subinhibitory concentrations of ciprofloxacin on Mycobacterium fortuitum mutation rates

, 2005
Objectives: Fluoroquinolones have found a place in the management of mycobacterial diseases including tuberculosis. It has been previously shown that subinhibitory concentrations of quinolones increase the mutation rate in Escherichia coli and ...
Basu, Shreya, O'Sullivan, D M, McHugh, TD, O'Sullivan, Denise M, Gillespie, S H, Dickens, A L, McHugh, T D, O'Sullivan, DM, Basu, S, Gillespie, Stephen H, Gillespie, SH, Dickens, AL, Dickens, Anne L, McHugh, Timothy D   +13 more
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Mycobacterium avium Pleuritis in a Non-Immunocompromised Patient [PDF]

, 2008
Nontuberculous mycobacterium infection is rarely accompanied by pleural involvement. We describe a very rare occurrence of Mycobacterium (M) avium pleuritis with pleural effusion in a non-compromised 73-year-old woman patient who had been treated for ...
Kakugawa, Tomoyuki, Ooe, Nobuharu, Hiroshi Ohtani, Inoue, Masao, Takatomo Yamayoshi, Noriho Sakamoto, Hiroshi Mukae, Yamayoshi, Takatomo, Satoko Kajiki, Tomoyuki Kakugawa, Akitaka Tanaka, Hiromi Tasaki, Koichi Izumikawa, Mukae, Hiroshi, Ohtani, Hiroshi, Kohno, Shigeru, Masao Inoue, Shigeru Kohno, Izumikawa, Koichi, Nobuharu Ooe, Tanaka, Akitaka, Sakamoto, Noriho, Kajiki, Satoko, Tasaki, Hiromi   +23 more
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Mycobacterium genavense infections in immunocompromised patients with HIV: A clinical case report

Clinical Case Reports
Key Clinical Message It is essential to consider non‐tuberculosis mycobacterium in HIV‐positive patients with fever, abdominal pain, weight loss, and splenomegaly.
Seyed Ali Dehghan Manshadi, Mitra Rezaei, Maryam Moradi, Marjan Hemmatian   +3 more
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Cutaneous Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections at a National Specialized Hospital in China

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2019
To identify the microorganism distribution clinical characteristics and management of cutaneous Mycobacterium tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infectious diseases in the past 10 years we collected and analyzed the patient records of all ...
Youming Mei, Wenyue Zhang, Ying Shi, Haiqin Jiang, Zhiming Chen, Santosh Chokkakula, Siyu Long, Chun Pan, Hongsheng Wang   +8 more
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