First report of disseminated Mycobacterium skin infections in two liver transplant recipients and rapid diagnosis by hsp65 gene sequencing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3733-3738

  Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Curreem, Shirly O T ^b   Ngan, Antonio H Y ^b   Yeung, Chi Keung ^b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b   Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; ISONIAZID; MOXIFLOXACIN; NUCLEOTIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HSP65 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NODULE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONIN 60; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM;

EID: 80355126268     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05088-11     Document Type: Article

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