Disseminated disease caused by Mycobacterium simiae in AIDS patients: a report of three cases

Narang, R.; Narang, P.; Jain, A.P.; Mendiratta, D.K.; Joshi, R.; Lavania, M.; Das, R.; Katoch, V.M.

Clinical microbiology and infection the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 16(7): 912-914

2010


ISSN/ISBN: 1198-743X
PMID: 19694759
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.03021.x
Document Number: 210907
Disseminated disease caused by Mycobacterium simiae, a slowly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium, has been rarely reported in the literature. We report on three AIDS patients who were found to suffer from mycobacteraemia caused by M. simiae in a rural tertiary-care hospital in central India.

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