Panteix G., Gutierrez M. C., Boschiroli M. L., Rouvière M., Plaidy A., Pressac D., Porcheret H., Chydenotis G., Ponsada M., Van Oortegem K., Salloum S., Cabuzel S., Banuls Anne-Laure, Van de Perre P., Godreuil Sylvain. (2010). Pulmonary tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium microti : a study of six recent cases in France. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 59 (8), p. 984-989. ISSN 0022-2615.
Titre du document
Pulmonary tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium microti : a study of six recent cases in France
Année de publication
2010
Auteurs
Panteix G., Gutierrez M. C., Boschiroli M. L., Rouvière M., Plaidy A., Pressac D., Porcheret H., Chydenotis G., Ponsada M., Van Oortegem K., Salloum S., Cabuzel S., Banuls Anne-Laure, Van de Perre P., Godreuil Sylvain
Source
Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2010,
59 (8), p. 984-989 ISSN 0022-2615
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.
Plan de classement
Entomologie médicale / Parasitologie / Virologie [052]
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010052723]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010052723
