Pulmonary Tuberculosis Due to Mycobacterium microti in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patient

Recently, we described the microbiological identification of Mycobacterium microti (which belongs to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex), by using novel genetic markers, in specimens from four immunocompromised patients. Herein we detail the clinical course of one of the four patients who was HI...

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Published in:Clinical infectious diseases 1998-12, Vol.27 (6), p.1543-1544
Main Authors: Foudraine, Norbert A., van Soolingen, Dick, Noordhoek, Gerda T., Reiss, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
AIDS
AIDS/HIV
Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use
Biological and medical sciences
Brief Reports
HIV Infections - complications
Human immunodeficiency virus 1
Human viral diseases
Humans
Infections
Infectious diseases
Lungs
Male
Medical sciences
Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium - isolation & purification
Mycobacterium Infections - drug therapy
Mycobacterium Infections - etiology
Mycobacterium Infections - microbiology
Mycobacterium microti
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Radiography
Sputum
Tropical medicine
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnostic imaging
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - drug therapy
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - etiology
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - microbiology
Viral diseases
Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids
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Summary:Recently, we described the microbiological identification of Mycobacterium microti (which belongs to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex), by using novel genetic markers, in specimens from four immunocompromised patients. Herein we detail the clinical course of one of the four patients who was HIV-1-infected.
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1086/517747