Pulmonary tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium microti: a study of six recent cases in France.

@article{Panteix2010PulmonaryTD,
  title={Pulmonary tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium microti: a study of six recent cases in France.},
  author={Gilles Panteix and Maria Cristina Gutierrez and Mar{\'i}a Laura Boschiroli and M Rouviere and A Plaidy and D Pressac and Huong Porcheret and Georges Chyd{\'e}riotis and Mikael Ponsada and K van Oortegem and S Salloum and S Cabuzel and Anne-Laure Ba{\~n}uls and Philippe Van de Perre and Sylvain Godreuil},
  journal={Journal of medical microbiology},
  year={2010},
  volume={59 Pt 8},
  pages={
          984-9
        }
}
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… 
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