Keywords :
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use; Antitubercular Agents/therapeutic use; Ciprofloxacin/therapeutic use; Clarithromycin/therapeutic use; Drug Combinations; Drug Therapy, Combination; Ethambutol/therapeutic use; Humans; Hydrocortisone/therapeutic use; Immunocompetence; Male; Middle Aged; Mycobacteria, Atypical/isolation & purification; Mycobacterium Infections, Atypical/complications/diagnosis/drug therapy; Ofloxacin/therapeutic use; Pneumonia, Bacterial/diagnosis/drug therapy/microbiology; Treatment Outcome; Vitamin B Complex/therapeutic use
Abstract :
[en] We report the case of a 57-year-old patient in whom we found a pulmonary infection due to Mycobacterium malmoense. This patient had no immunodeficiency and responded quite rapidly to anti-tuberculous therapy. He was treated for 6 months by levofloxacine, myambutol, and nicotibine, followed by 3 months of clarithromycine, levofloxacine and myambutol. The patient improved clinically to become asymptomatic and the cavitary lesion shown at the CT-scan slightly decreased. The patient is still currently treated by clarithromycine and ciproxine.
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