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SUBMITTER: Hong SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3756241 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annals of laboratory medicine 20130808 5
Mycobacterium longobardum is a slow-growing, nontuberculous mycobacterium that was first characterized from the M. terrae complex in 2012. We report a case of M. longobardum induced chronic osteomyelitis. A 71-yr-old man presented with inflammation in the left elbow and he underwent a surgery under the suspicion of tuberculous osteomyelitis. The pathologic tissue culture grew M. longobardum which was identified by analysis of the 65-kDa heat shock protein and full-length 16S rRNA genes. The pati ...[more]