PEDIATRICS Vol. 49 No. 1 January 1972, pp. 118-124
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Pulmonary Mycobacterium scrofulaceum Infection in a Child

Austin R. Cooper B.Sc., M.D.1 and Ronald S. Martin Ph.D.1

1 Departments of Paediatrics and Microbiology, Dalhousie University, The Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Pulmonary infections due to atypical mycobacteria are very rare in children, in whom they closely simulate infections associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The present case report presents a possible pulmonary infection due to Mycobacterium scrofulaceum (Runyon group II) in a 2-year-old girl. The results of bacteriologic isolation of this organism have to be interpreted with caution, however, since the organism may exist in commensal form in man.




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