Tortoli E, Besozzi G, Lacchini C, Penati V, Simonetti M T, Emler S
Laboratorio di Microbiologia e Virologia, Ospedale di Careggi, Firenze, Italy.
Eur Respir J. 1998 Apr;11(4):975-7. doi: 10.1183/09031936.98.11040975.
We describe the case of a patient with a chronic pulmonary infection due to a mycobacterium tentatively identified as Mycobacterium flavescens, but finally shown to be Mycobacterium szulgai; this is the first M. szulgai infection reported in Italy. The patient responded to treatment with multiple antituberculosis drugs only after two cycles of 10 and 6 months, respectively. The literature concerning previous case reports in which M. szulgai is involved is revised and the difficulty concerning the identification of this rare mycobacterium, along with its in vitro and in vivo susceptibility, are discussed.
我们描述了一例因一种暂被鉴定为淡黄分枝杆菌但最终被证实为苏尔加分枝杆菌的分枝杆菌引起慢性肺部感染的患者病例；这是意大利报告的首例苏尔加分枝杆菌感染病例。该患者仅在分别经过两个周期、时长为10个月和6个月的治疗后，才对多种抗结核药物治疗产生反应。对之前涉及苏尔加分枝杆菌的病例报告文献进行了修订，并讨论了鉴定这种罕见分枝杆菌的困难以及其体外和体内药敏情况。
