title: Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai in a young healthy woman.
abstract: A 20-year-old woman with no history of pulmonary disease had no symptom and her chest CT scans demonstrated adhesive small multiple nodules in the bronchial lung biopsy specimen showed epithelioid cell granuloma containing Langhans giant cells, therefore she was diagnosed as pulmonary mycobacteriosis caused by M. szulgai. This is the youngest case of this rare condition occurring in a healthy subject without underlying pulmonary diseases.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo.
authors.forename: Shin-ichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inomata
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Kazutaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: Naoto
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Takiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Omote
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nigawara
authors.forename: Mamoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Hirohumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chiba
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D009170:Nontuberculous Mycobacteria; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents