Human infections due to Mycobacterium lentiflavum.
Three cases of human disease due to Mycobacterium lentiflavum are reported. In the first, the mycobacterium was responsible for chronic pulmonary disease in an elderly woman; in the second, it gave rise to cervical lymphadenitis in a child; and in the third, it caused a liver abscess in a young AIDS patient.
Tortoli
Enrico
E
Regional Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Microbiology and Virology Laboratory, Careggi Hospital, Italy. e.tortoli@libero.it
Bartoloni
Alessandro
A
Erba
Maria Luigia
ML
Levrè
Egle
E
Lombardi
Natalia
N
Mantella
Antonia
A
Mecocci
Lorenzo
L
D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000382:microbiology*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000382:microbiology*