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. 1989 Apr;48(4):336–338. doi: 10.1136/ard.48.4.336

Atypical mycobacterial infection of the lung in rheumatoid arthritis.

S W Watkin 1, R C Bucknall 1, M Nisar 1, R A Agnew 1
PMCID: PMC1003753  PMID: 2712616

Abstract

Mycobacterium kansasii was isolated from a cavitating pneumonia found in a 51 year old man with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis, and treatment was complicated by drug induced neuropathy.

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