Prevalence of Mycobacterium lentiflavum in cystic fibrosis patients, France
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Prevalence of Mycobacterium lentiflavum in cystic fibrosis patients, France
BACKGROUND Mycobacterium lentiflavum is rarely isolated in respiratory tract samples from cystic fibrosis patients. We herein describe an unusually high prevalence of M. lentiflavum in such patients. METHODS M. lentiflavum, isolated from the respiratory tract of cystic fibrosis patients, was identified using both rpoB partial sequencing and detected directly in the sputum by using real-time P...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Pulmonary Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2466
DOI: 10.1186/s12890-015-0123-y