Ann Lab Med.  2014 May;34(3):243-246. 10.3343/alm.2014.34.3.243.

Pulmonary Infection Caused by Mycobacterium neoaurum: The First Case in Korea

• Kim CK
• Choi SI
• Jeon BR
• Lee YW
• Lee YK
• Shin HB

• KMID: 1791928
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2014.34.3.243

Abstract

Mycobacterium neoaurum is rapidly growing mycobacteria that can cause human infections. It commonly causes bloodstream infections in immunocompromised hosts, and unlike other mycobacteria species, it rarely causes pulmonary infections. We confirmed the first pulmonary infection case in Korea caused by M. neoaurum using full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

Keyword

Nontuberculous mycobacteria; Mycobacterium neoaurum; 16S rRNA; sequencing

MeSH Terms

Adult
Female
Humans
Lung Diseases/*diagnosis/microbiology
Mycobacterium/genetics/*isolation & purification
Mycobacterium Infections/*diagnosis/microbiology
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria/genetics/isolation & purification
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
Republic of Korea
Sequence Analysis, RNA
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Phylogenetic relationships of clinical isolate with related Mycobacterium species on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequences by neighbor-joining method. Scale bar represents 2 nucleotide substitutions per 1,000 nucleotides.

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