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Pneumonia caused by Mycobacterium kansasii in a series of patients without recognised immune defect.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Aug 2004
Arend S M, Cerdá de Palou E, de Haas P, Janssen R, Hoeve M A, Verhard E M, Ottenhoff T H M, van Soolingen D, van Dissel J T
Abstract excerpt
The clinical and epidemiological characteristics of 17 patients diagnosed with Mycobacterium kansasii pneumonia within a limited geographical region over a period of 10 years are described. An in-depth evaluation of the innate and adaptive immune systems was performed for five available patients. A comparison was made of the genetic fingerprint patterns of the isolates obtained by restriction fragment length...
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