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A case of familial pulmonary mycobacterium avium complex disease.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2010
Matsuyama Masashi, Miura Yukiko, Kiwamoto Takumi, Moriya Ataru, Kokuho Nariaki, Shimizu Kei, Otsuka Shigeo, Hijikata Minako, Keicho Naoto, Hayashihara Kenji, Saito Takefumi
Abstract excerpt
We report one Japanese familial line in which there were three pulmonary MAC patients and one suspected patient over two generations, most of whom were diagnosed with the nodular/bronchiectatic type. In all patients, life circumstances and bacterial strains differed at the time of diagnosis. This suggests that the genes thought to affect patient susceptibility to pulmonary MAC disease may be involved in this...
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