Open AccessDISSEMINATED ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS IN A CHILD
Author(s) -
Yun Kankatsu,
Matsuo Takeshi,
Kohno Shigeru,
Ikeda Takayoshi,
Sakai* Masayoshi,
Yoshimoto* Masaaki,
Nakashita** Yoshio
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1978.tb00914.x
Subject(s) - pathology , medicine
A case of disseminated mycobacterial disease caused by mycobacterium sculoflaceum is presented in a three‐year‐old female. Atypical acid‐fast organisms were found in cultures from the tissue of lymph node and bone marrow, gastric juice and feces. Histologically the mesenterlc lymph nodes contained numerous large macrophages which had large numbers of acid‐fast bacilli. Gaseation necrosis was absent. Distinguishing features are the extensive involvement of lymph nodes and bones and the preference for intra‐cellular presence of acid‐fast bacilli. Up to the present in Japan there are only 17 reported cases of atypical mycobacteriosis in children.