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SUBMITTER: Jeong BH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3919962 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jeong Byeong-Ho BH Kim Su-Young SY Jeon Kyeongman K Huh Hee Jae HJ Ki Chang-Seok CS Lee Nam Yong NY Shin Sung Jae SJ Koh Won-Jung WJ
Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases 20140129 1
We report the first Korean case of lung diseases caused by Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii in a previously healthy male, except for a previous history of pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchiectasis. All serial isolates are identified as M. abscessus subsp. bolletii by multi-locus sequence analysis based on the hsp65, rpoB, and 16S rRNA fragments. At the genetic level, the isolate has the erm(41) gene with a T28 sequevar, associated with clarithromycin resistance, and no rrl mutation. The i ...[more]