Pulmonary Infection due to Mycobacterium szulgai

• Published in: Respiration Vol. 70; no. 5; pp. 533 - 536
• Main Authors: Sánchez-Alarcos, José M.F., de Miguel-Díez, Javier, Bonilla, Ignacio, Sicilia, Juan J., Álvarez-Sala, José L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland Karger 01.09.2003; S. Karger AG
• Subjects: Aged; Antitubercular Agents - administration & dosage; Bacterial diseases; Biological and medical sciences; Case Report; Drug Therapy, Combination; Human bacterial diseases; Humans; Infectious diseases; Male; Medical sciences; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - diagnosis; Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - drug therapy; Mycobacterium szulgai; Nontuberculous Mycobacteria; Pneumology; Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections; Non-tuberculous mycobacteria; Mycobacterium infections; Antitubercular agent; Mycobacterium szulgai; Agent; Respiratory disease; Mycobacterial infection; Pulmonary infection; Infection; Tuberculosis; Mycobacteriales; Bacteriosis; Mycobacteriaceae; Bacteria; Actinomycetes; Pneumology

A 75-year-old man was admitted with cough, purulent sputum, fatigue and weight loss of 10 kg of some months’ duration. His chest radiograph showed poorly defined opacities in the right lung. Eleven years before admission an epidermoid carcinoma of the right lung had been diagnosed and a right biloba...