A 24-year-old man developed a severe pleuropulmonary infection with Mycobacterium kansasii 18 months after receiving a kidney transplant from his mother. Intestinal malabsorption with severe diarrhea and a skin abscess disappeared and his pneumonia was cured when Rifampin was administered. This suggested that generalized dissemination with M. kansasii may have been present.
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Cruz et al. (2008) studied this question.