ENT Unit, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy.
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Medical, Surgical and Neurological Sciences, University of Siena, Policlinico "Le Scotte" Viale Bracci 16, 53100 Siena, Italy.
Indian J Microbiol. 2013 Jun;53(2):241-4. doi: 10.1007/s12088-013-0367-2. Epub 2013 Feb 6.
Mycobacterium triplex was first described in 1996. This nontuberculous Mycobacterium causes a severe pulmonary disease in immunocompromised patients but it can involve also healthy patients. A literature search was made on the PubMed database and it produced only few cases of children with cervical lymphadenitis due to this Mycobacterium Triplex. We are describing a case of M. triplex cervical lymphadenitis in an immunocompetent child.
三亲分枝杆菌于 1996 年首次被描述。这种非结核分枝杆菌可导致免疫功能低下的患者发生严重的肺部疾病,但也可累及健康患者。在 PubMed 数据库上进行了文献检索,仅检索到几例因三亲分枝杆菌引起的儿童颈部淋巴结炎的病例。我们描述了一例免疫功能正常的儿童三亲分枝杆菌颈部淋巴结炎的病例。