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... > Bacteria > Gram-Positive Bacteria > Gram-Positive Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Irregular > Actinobacteria > Mycobacteriaceae > Mycobacterium > Nontuberculous Mycobacteria > Mycobacterium kansasii
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Mycobacterium kansasii  

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  • infection: coord IM with MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS (IM)

Scope note

  • A slow-growing, photochromogenic species that is the etiologic agent of a tuberculosis-like disease in humans and is frequently isolated from human pulmonary secretions or tubercles. The incidence of infection is sharply increased among immunocompromised individuals. (Dorland, 28th ed)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019909

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