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SUBMITTER: Moon SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4620342 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moon Seong Mi SM Kim Su-Young SY Chung Myung Jin MJ Lee Seung Heon SH Shin Sung Jae SJ Koh Won-Jung WJ
Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases 20151001 4
Mycobacterium shinjukuense is a novel species of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) that was first reported in Japan in 2011. It is a slow-growing NTM pathogen that can cause chronic pulmonary infections. There are only a few reported cases of M. shinjukuense infections, all of which are from Japan. We reported a case of chronic lung disease caused by M. shinjukuense. The organism was identified by 16S rRNA, rpoB, and hsp65 gene sequencing. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first confirm ...[more]