Fatal Pulmonary Infection with Mycobacterium celatum in an Apparently Immunocompetent Patient

1 February 1998

journal article
case report
Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Vol. 36 (2) , 587-588
https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.36.2.587-588.1998

Abstract

Mycobacterium celatum is a recently described mycobacterium isolated from patients who have suppressed cell-mediated immunity, such as AIDS. We present here, to our knowledge, the first report of a fatal pulmonary infection caused by M. celatum in a 73-year-old immunocompetent female patient. The mycobacterium was identified by a 16S rRNA sequence analysis.

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