Isolation of Mycobacterium lentiflavum from a Patient with a Lung Destroyed by Tuberculosis.
10.3343/kjlm.2007.27.2.124
- Author:
Sue SHIN
1
;
Jong Hyun YOON
;
Sang Hoon SONG
;
Eui Chong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boramae Hospital, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Mycobacterium lentiflavum;
16S rRNA gene;
Clinical specimen
- MeSH:
Aged;
Humans;
Male;
Mycobacterium/genetics/*isolation & purification;
Tomography, X-Ray Computed;
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/diagnosis/*microbiology/radiography
- From:The Korean Journal of Laboratory Medicine
2007;27(2):124-127
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Mycobacterium lentiflavum has recently been described as an emerging human pathogen without regard to the immune status of the host. We herein report on M. lentiflavum isolated from a respiratory specimen of a patient. Although the organism described in this case seems to be a colonizer of a lung destroyed by tuberculosis, the current methods for species identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria have to be re-evaluated so as not to underestimate these organisms.
