title: [Primary infection type atypical mycobacteriosis (lung infection) in the Fuji City Central Hospital during 1989-94].
abstract: A Clinical observation was carried out on primary infection type atypical mycobacteriosis (lung infection) in the Fuji City Central Hospital (Fuji-shi, Shizuokaken, Japan) during 1989-94. 1) Twenty-five out of 118 cases (21.8%) admitted to the tuberculosis ward of the hospital were atypical mycobacteriosis. Ten out of 25 cases with atypical mycobacteriosis were primary infection (8.5%). 2) The results of identification of atypical mycobacteria isolated from cases were as follows: M. avium-intracellulare complex: 4 cases M. kansasii: 3 cases M. scrofulaceum: 2 cases Unknown: 1 case 3) Background factor of atypical mycobacteriosis was observed in 6 out of 10 cases. No background factor was seen in 4 cases. 4) In spite of resistance to drugs of isolated mycobacteria in vitro, treatment by drugs such as INH, RFP, and SM was effective in clinical course. That is, mycobacteria in sputum converted to negative, and chest X-ray shadow improvement.
authors.affiliation: Landmark Clinic, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Imaizumi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology