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SUBMITTER: Ikegami H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7332639 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 20191220 11
A 67-year-old man with a pulmonary cavity was admitted to our hospital. Mycobacterial culture of the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid sample obtained from the right upper pulmonary lesion tested positive for mycobacterium, and sequencing of the 16S rRNA genes, hsp65, and rpoB revealed that the cultured mycobacterium was Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum. Treatment with antimycobacterial agents was ineffective, and repeated culturing of bronchoscopic specimens revealed that the specimens were positive f ...[more]