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Familial disseminated infection due to atypical mycobacteria with childhood onset.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Oct 1998
Vesterhus P, Holland S M, Abrahamsen T G, Bjerknes R
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We describe two brothers of consanguineous Pakistani parents who lived in Norway and had disseminated infections due to nontuberculous mycobacteria. The first boy developed clinical signs of disseminated BCG infection after vaccination. He was successfully treated with antimycobacterial agents. Two and one-half years later, he developed disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection and died at 6 years of...
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