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Molecular Longitudinal Tracking of Mycobacterium abscessus spp. during Chronic Infection of the Human Lung
16 May 2013
Abstract excerpt
The Mycobacterium abscessus complex is an emerging cause of chronic pulmonary infection in patients with underlying lung disease. The M. abscessus complex is regarded as an environmental pathogen but its molecular adaptation to the human lung during long-term infection is poorly understood. Here we carried out a longitudinal molecular epidemiological analysis of 178 M. abscessus spp. isolates obtained from 10...
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