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Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a Patient with Bronchiectasis.


ABSTRACT: We report a rare case of lung disease caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a previously healthy woman. A 54-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to chronic cough and sputum. A computed tomography scan of the chest revealed bilateral bronchiectasis with bronchiolitis in the right middle lobe and the lingular division of the left upper lobe. Nontuberculous mycobacteria were isolated twice from three expectorated sputum specimens. All isolates were identified as M. lentiflavum by multilocus sequence analysis based on rpoB, hsp65, and 16S rRNA fragments. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first documented case of M. lentiflavum lung disease in an immunocompetent adult in Korea.

SUBMITTER: Jeong BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3651930 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease Caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a Patient with Bronchiectasis.

Jeong Byeong-Ho BH   Song Jae-Uk JU   Kim Wooyoul W   Han Seo Goo SG   Ko Yousang Y   Song Junwhi J   Chang Boksoon B   Hong Goohyeon G   Kim Su-Young SY   Choi Go-Eun GE   Shin Sung Jae SJ   Koh Won-Jung WJ  

Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases 20130430 4


We report a rare case of lung disease caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a previously healthy woman. A 54-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to chronic cough and sputum. A computed tomography scan of the chest revealed bilateral bronchiectasis with bronchiolitis in the right middle lobe and the lingular division of the left upper lobe. Nontuberculous mycobacteria were isolated twice from three expectorated sputum specimens. All isolates were identified as M. lentiflavum by multi  ...[more]

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