Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection Caused by Mycobacterium szulgai in a Young Healthy Woman

A 20-year-old woman with no history of pulmonary disease had no symptom and her chest CT scans demonstrated adhesive small multiple nodules in the bronchial lung biopsy specimen showed epithelioid cell granuloma containing Langhans giant cells, therefore she was diagnosed as pulmonary mycobacteriosi...

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Published inInternal Medicine Vol. 45; no. 15; pp. 913 - 916
Main Authors Inomata, Shin-ichiro, Tanaka, Hiroshi, Nakajima, Kazutaka, Nakamura, Naoto, Omote, Takiko, Nigawara, Eiji, Takahashi, Mamoru, Chiba, Hirohumi, Takahashi, Hiroki
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 01.01.2006
Subjects
Adult
Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use
chemotherapy
clarithromycin
epitheloid cell granuloma
Female
Humans
Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - diagnosis
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - drug therapy
Mycobacterium szulgai
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - drug therapy
young woman
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Summary:A 20-year-old woman with no history of pulmonary disease had no symptom and her chest CT scans demonstrated adhesive small multiple nodules in the bronchial lung biopsy specimen showed epithelioid cell granuloma containing Langhans giant cells, therefore she was diagnosed as pulmonary mycobacteriosis caused by M. szulgai. This is the youngest case of this rare condition occurring in a healthy subject without underlying pulmonary diseases.
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ISSN:0918-2918
1349-7235
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DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1744