Mycobacterium genavense infections in pet animals.
Mycobacterium genavense, a recently reported cause of a wasting illness in patients with AIDS, was isolated from a cervical lymph mode from a dog with severe hind limb weakness and from trachael tissue from a parrot with acute onset respiratory distress. Physicians caring for immunocompromised patients should consider birds and dogs potential sources of M. genavense infection and submit appropriate specimens for culture.
Kiehn
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Microbiology Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Hoefer
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Bottger
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Ross
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Wong
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Edwards
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Antinoff
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Armstrong
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000382:microbiology*; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D001717:Birds; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000382:microbiology