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Mycobacterium simiae Infection of the Parotid Gland in an Immunocompetent Child

Author(s) -

Daniel Hankins,

Michael T. Kelly,

Vini Vijayan

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2048-7207

pISSN - 2048-7193

DOI - 10.1093/jpids/pis098

Subject(s) - medicine , nontuberculous mycobacteria , mycobacterium , immunocompetence , parotid gland , mycobacterium tuberculosis , tuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology , virology , pathology , biology , immune system

Mycobacterium simiae is a multidrug-resistant, slowgrowing, nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) that has been rarely reported as a cause of pulmonary infections and disseminated disease in immunocompromised hosts, especially in patients with advanced AIDS [1]. Nontuberculous mycobacterium infections caused by M simiae have increasingly been reported as a cause for cervical lymphadenitis in immunocompetent children [2, 3]; however, infection of the parotid gland secondary to M

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