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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 59, Issue 8, Pages 984-989Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.019372-0
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- IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement)
- CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
- Laboratoire de Bacteriologic, Hopital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France
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Human tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium microti is rare, but its prevalence and clinical significance may have been underestimated. To the best of our knowledge, 21 cases have been reported in the literature in the last decade. We report six recent pulmonary cases caused by M. microti over a period of 5 years detected in French clinical mycobacteriology laboratories of the hospital network. Our data confirm the potential of M. microti to cause clinical illness in immunocompetent patients. M. microti grew slowly from specimens, delaying the final microbiological diagnosis. Therefore, patients with tuberculosis caused by M. microti could benefit from the use of rapid diagnostic molecular techniques directly on clinical samples. From a review of the literature and this study, a classical antituberculous therapy seems effective in treating patients with M. microti disease.
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