Emergence of Mycobacterium simiae: A retrospective study from a tertiary care center in Lebanon

• Amal Hamieh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amal Hamieh, Ralph Tayyar

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8557-7532

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• Ralph Tayyar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amal Hamieh, Ralph Tayyar

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Houssam Tabaja,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Saeed E. L. Zein,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Pierre Bou Khalil,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Nathalie Kara,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Zeina A. Kanafani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Nadim Kanj,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Imad Bou Akl,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• George Araj,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Ghina Berjaoui,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Souha S. Kanj

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sk11@aub.edu.lb

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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