Kawashima T, Kioi S, Arakawa M
National Takada Hospital.
Kansenshogaku Zasshi. 1994 Mar;68(3):416-20. doi: 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.68.416.
Two cases of lung infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae subsp. abscessus are reported. Case 1, a 50-year-old female, was a secondary infection-type, and case 2, a 53-year-old female, was a primary infection-type. The 16 cases reported, between the ages of 29 and 76 years, there were 6 males and 10 females. The roentgenographic examinations, revealed that the ratio of the primary and secondary infection-type was 3:1. Effective agents for this organism has not been yet confirmed. In the present study, we treated two patients with AMK and IPM/CS, and obtained negative conversion of the sputum culture as well as improvement of roentgenographic features.
报告了2例龟分枝杆菌脓肿亚种引起的肺部感染病例。病例1为一名50岁女性，属于继发性感染类型；病例2为一名53岁女性，属于原发性感染类型。在已报告的16例年龄在29至76岁之间的病例中，男性6例，女性10例。X线检查显示，原发性和继发性感染类型的比例为3:1。针对该病原体的有效药物尚未得到证实。在本研究中，我们用阿米卡星（AMK）和亚胺培南/西司他丁（IPM/CS）治疗了2例患者，痰培养转为阴性，X线表现也有所改善。
