Emergence of clinically relevant Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial infections in Saudi Arabia.

• Main Authors: Bright Varghese (Author), Ziad Memish (Author), Naila Abuljadayel (Author), Raafat Al-Hakeem (Author), Fahad Alrabiah (Author), Sahal Abdulaziz Al-Hajoj (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) are emerging around the world due to a higher prevalence of immunosuppressive illness and therapy. Saudi Arabia is not an exception as there have been novel mycobacterial species also identified. In addition, several published case reports from differen...