Propionibacterium acnes is the most common bacterium commensal in peripheral lung tissue and mediastinal lymph nodes from subjects without sarcoidosis - Ishige, Ikuo; Eishi, Yoshinobu; Takemura, Tamiko; Kobayashi, Intetsu; Nakata, Koh; Tanaka, Isao; Nagaoka, Sakae; Iwai, Kazuro; Watanabe, Kunitomo; Takizawa, Touichiro; Koike, Morio (Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases, 2005)
Keywords: Adult; Case-Control Studies; Female; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - complications; Humans; Lung - microbiology; Lung Diseases - microbiology; Lymph Nodes - microbiology; Male; Mediastinum; Middle Aged; Propionibacterium acnes - isolation & purification; Propionibacterium acnes - pathogenicity; Sarcoidosis - microbiology