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Mycobacterium avium in a shower linked to pulmonary disease

2008-01-01

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Mycobacterium avium was isolated from hot and cold water samples and from sediment (biofilm) collected from the showerhead in the home of a woman with M. avium pulmonary disease lacking known M. avium risk factors. IS1245/IS1311 DNA fingerprinting demonstrated that M. avium isolates from the hot and cold water and showerhead sediment demonstrated a clonal relationship with the patient's M. avium isolate. The data...

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Literature Corpus work: 4259a6f3-5162-5b81-9ab7-a457116a9042
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2008.232

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