Pathogenität von Mycobacterium kansasii
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Torsten T. Bauer; H Rüssmann; S Wagner; W. Matthiessen; Nicolas Schönfeld; S Vesenbeckh; Andreas Roth; Anna Streubel; Harald Mauch
- Source
- Pneumologie. 68:526-531
- Subject
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Mycobacterium kansasii
Lung
biology
business.industry
equipment and supplies
bacterial infections and mycoses
biology.organism_classification
Pathogenicity
Disease rates
Microbiology
medicine.anatomical_structure
bacteria
Medicine
In patient
Young adult
business
Prospective cohort study
Bacteria
- Language
- ISSN
- 1438-8790
0934-8387
Background: In a recent prospective study on pul- monary infections with non-tuberculous myco- bacteria (NTM) led by the WATL group, disease rates in patients with M. kansasii infection were found to be 100%. In the present study we re- evaluated the pathogenicity of M. kansasii infec- tions in a large lung diseases treatment center in