Clinical Significance of Mycobacterium kansasii Isolates from Respiratory Specimens

Seong Mi Moon; Hye Yun Park; Kyeongman Jeon; Su-Young Kim; Myung Jin Chung; Hee Jae Huh; Chang-Seok Ki; Nam Yong Lee; Sung Jae Shin; Won-Jung Koh

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139621

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Clinical Significance of Mycobacterium kansasii Isolates from Respiratory Specimens

Seong Mi Moon ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Seong Mi Moon, Hye Yun Park

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Hye Yun Park ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Seong Mi Moon, Hye Yun Park

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Kyeongman Jeon,

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Su-Young Kim,

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Myung Jin Chung,

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Hee Jae Huh,

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Chang-Seok Ki,

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Nam Yong Lee,

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Sung Jae Shin,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Won-Jung Koh

* E-mail: wjkoh@skku.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Clinical Significance of Mycobacterium kansasii Isolates from Respiratory Specimens

Seong Mi Moon,
Hye Yun Park,
Kyeongman Jeon,
Su-Young Kim,
Myung Jin Chung,
Hee Jae Huh,
Chang-Seok Ki,
Nam Yong Lee,
Sung Jae Shin,
Won-Jung Koh

Published: October 2, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139621

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