Ann Lab Med.  2015 May;35(3):379-381. 10.3343/alm.2015.35.3.379.

First Case of Pulmonary Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum Infection in a Patient With Bronchiectasis in Korea

• Kim KB
• Park SG
• Park JS
• Lee W
• Ha JS
• Ryoo NH
• Jeon DS
• Kim JR

• KMID: 2363216
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2015.35.3.379

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Aged
Bronchiectasis/*diagnosis/microbiology
Humans
Male
Mycobacterium/classification/*genetics/isolation & purification
Mycobacterium Infections/*diagnosis/microbiology
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
Republic of Korea
Sequence Analysis, DNA
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Figure

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  Fig. 1 The neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences of our Mycobacterium parascrofulaceum isolate and 19 similar microorganisms. The scale bar corresponds to 0.2% sequence divergence.

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