Misdiagnosis of Mycobacterium brumae Infection
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Misdiagnosis of Mycobacterium brumae infection.
We read with interest the paper “Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection Caused by Mycobacterium brumae” by Lee and colleagues (4) because we had described this species in 1993 and no other isolates had been reported from this first description (5). So we contacted the corresponding author, Dr. Han, who gently sent us the M. brumae strain causing the bloodstream infection (MDA0695 strain). In or...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0095-1137
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01540-10