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Clinical relevance of Mycobacterium szulgai in The Netherlands.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Apr 2008
van Ingen Jakko, Boeree Martin J, de Lange Wiel C M, de Haas Petra E W, Dekhuijzen P N Richard, van Soolingen Dick
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The clinical relevance of Mycobacterium szulgai isolates is unknown, and available literature focuses on case reports of M. szulgai disease. We assessed the clinical relevance of M. szulgai isolated from patients in The Netherlands. METHODS: We reviewed medical files for all 21 patients in The Netherlands from whom M. szulgai was isolated during 1999-2006, applying the diagnostic criteria of the...
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