title: Isolation of Mycobacterium shimoidei from a patient with cavitary pulmonary disease.
abstract: Mycobacterium shimoidei was isolated from the sputum of a man hospitalized for cavitary pulmonary disease. This is the fourth isolation of M. shimoidei to be reported; the organism has also been isolated in Japan, Australia, and Germany.
authors.affiliation: Bacteriological and Virological Laboratory, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tortoli
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Simonetti
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000382:microbiology*