Lumbar infection caused by <i>Mycobacterium paragordonae</i>: A case report
Yingzheng Tan, Ting Yuan, Liang Tan, Yuqiu Tian, Yunzhu Long
World Journal of Clinical Cases · 2021-10
Abstract
Mycobacterium paragordonae (M. paragordonae), a slow-growing, acid-resistant mycobacterial species, was first isolated from the sputum of a lung infection patient in South Korea in 2014. Infections caused by M. paragordonae are rare.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Back pain
- Mycobacterium
- Lumbar
- Mycobacterium abscessus
- Sputum
- Pathology
- Surgery