Mycobacterium simiae: Harmless colonizer or deadly pathogen?

PLoS Pathog. 2020 Apr 30;16(4):e1008418. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008418. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Jean-Francois Jabbour¹, Amal Hamieh², Sima L Sharara³, Souha S Kanj¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Al Rassoul Al Azam Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Antitubercular Agents / administration & dosage
Humans
Mycobacterium / genetics*
Mycobacterium / growth & development
Mycobacterium / isolation & purification
Mycobacterium / physiology
Mycobacterium Infections / diagnosis
Mycobacterium Infections / drug therapy
Mycobacterium Infections / epidemiology
Mycobacterium Infections / microbiology*

Substances

Antitubercular Agents

Supplementary concepts

Mycobacterium simiae

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.