Kim Chang-Ki, Choi Soo In, Jeon Byung Ryul, Lee Yong-Wha, Lee You Kyoung, Shin Hee Bong
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Korean Institute of Tuberculosis, Osong, Korea.
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea.
Ann Lab Med. 2014 May;34(3):243-6. doi: 10.3343/alm.2014.34.3.243. Epub 2014 Apr 8.
Mycobacterium neoaurum is rapidly growing mycobacteria that can cause human infections. It commonly causes bloodstream infections in immunocompromised hosts, and unlike other mycobacteria species, it rarely causes pulmonary infections. We confirmed the first pulmonary infection case in Korea caused by M. neoaurum using full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
新金色分枝杆菌是一种可导致人类感染的快速生长分枝杆菌。它通常在免疫功能低下的宿主中引起血流感染,与其他分枝杆菌不同,它很少引起肺部感染。我们通过全长16S rRNA基因测序确诊了韩国首例由新金色分枝杆菌引起的肺部感染病例。