TB Research

Pulmonary Infection Associated with<i>Mycobacterium canariasense</i>in Suspected Tuberculosis Patient, Iran

Fatemeh Sakhaee, Farzam Vaziri, Golnaz Bahramali, Kambiz Taremian, Seyed Davar Siadat, Abolfazl Fateh

Emerging infectious diseases · 2019-09

Abstract

Mycobacterium canariasense had only been isolated in humans from blood and contaminated catheters. We report a case of pulmonary disease associated with M. canariasense infection that was identified by multilocus sequence analysis; the illness was initially ascribed to M. tuberculosis. M. canariasense should be considered a cause of respiratory infection.

MeSH terms

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Multilocus sequence typing
  • Medicine
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
  • Disease
  • Mycobacterium
  • Pulmonary disease
  • Immunology
  • Microbiology
  • Virology
  • Biology