Moon Seong Mi, Kim Su-Young, Jhun Byung Woo, Lee Hyun, Park Hye Yun, Jeon Kyeongman, Huh Hee Jae, Ki Chang-Seok, Lee Nam Yong, Shin Sung Jae, Koh Won-Jung
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2016 Dec;86(4):382-384. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.09.016. Epub 2016 Sep 24.
Mycobacterium chimaera is a recently described species distinct from M. intracellulare. M. chimaera is regarded as less virulent than M. intracellulare. Using multi-locus sequence-based identification, M. chimaera lung disease was diagnosed in 11 patients. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of M. chimaera lung disease were comparable to M. intracellulare lung disease.
嵌合体分枝杆菌是一种最近被描述的、与胞内分枝杆菌不同的菌种。嵌合体分枝杆菌被认为比胞内分枝杆菌的毒力更低。通过基于多位点序列的鉴定，在11名患者中诊断出嵌合体分枝杆菌肺病。嵌合体分枝杆菌肺病的临床特征和转归与胞内分枝杆菌肺病相当。
