Chronic Pulmonary Disease Caused by Tsukamurella toyonakaense.

Category Primary study
JournalEmerging infectious diseases
Year 2022
Unidentified Mycobacterium species are sometimes detected in respiratory specimens. We identified a novel Tsukamurella species (Tsukamurella sp. TY48, RIMD 2001001, CIP 111916T), Tsukamurella toyonakaense, from a patient given a misdiagnosis of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease caused by unidentified mycobacteria. Genomic identification of this Tsukamurella species helped clarify its clinical characteristics and epidemiology.
Epistemonikos ID: 27200e99a24ee8c04f45871d7a2b690160b46d96
First added on: Jan 07, 2023