title: Isolation of Mycobacterium lentiflavum from a patient with a lung destroyed by tuberculosis.
abstract: Mycobacterium lentiflavum has recently been described as an emerging human pathogen without regard to the immune status of the host. We herein report on M. lentiflavum isolated from a respiratory specimen of a patient. Although the organism described in this case seems to be a colonizer of a lung destroyed by tuberculosis, the current methods for species identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria have to be re-evaluated so as not to underestimate these organisms.
authors: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boramae Hospital, Korea.
authors: Sue
authors: S
authors: Shin
authors: Jong Hyun
authors: JH
authors: Yoon
authors: Sang Hoon
authors: SH
authors: Song
authors: Eui Chong
authors: EC
authors: Kim
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology*