Publications

fish gambler's tenosynovitis caused by mycobacterium marinum: environmental investigation of a fishing pond in southern taiwan.	we describe a patient with mycobacterium marinum tenosynovitis associated with a fish spine injury acquired at a gambling fishing pond in southern taiwan and identify the source of the infection. m. marinum was isolated from fishing ponds and underground water and wastewater at the site. the isolates shared the same pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern as the patient. m. marinum was not detected in 54 samples obtained from 27 fish. mycobacterium gordonae was isolated from 24 samples collecte ...	2007	17572037
isolation of non-tuberculous mycobacteria from hospital cockroaches (periplaneta americana).	this study attempted to isolate mycobacteria from hospital and household cockroaches from 90 hospitals and 40 households in kaohsiung city and kaohsiung county, south taiwan. among 203 cockroaches (139 periplaneta americana and 64 blattella germanica) collected from the hospitals, six mycobacterium spp. were isolated and identified by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. in 12 cockroaches (p. americana): four mycobacterium kansaii, three mycobacterium xeno ...	2003	12623325