Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai in a young healthy woman.
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.
Inomata
Shin-ichiro
S
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo.
Tanaka
Hiroshi
H
Nakajima
Kazutaka
K
Nakamura
Naoto
N
Omote
Takiko
T
Nigawara
Eiji
E
Takahashi
Mamoru
M
Chiba
Hirohumi
H
Takahashi
Hiroki
H
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
D000995:Antitubercular Agents