BACKGROUND The tuberculosis and infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) species are increasing in patients presented with respiratory illness, and it is crucial to document the epidemiology of these infections. OBJECTIVES To study the mycobacterial species and in vitro drug susceptibility trends of Mycobacterium tuberculosis found in the respiratory specimens. MATERIALS AND ...

Cutaneous infection with rapidly growing mycobacteria is uncommon and its diagnosis can be missed unless there is strong clinical suspicion coupled with microbiological confirmation. We report a case of localized recurrent soft tissue swelling of the foot by Mycobacterium fortuitum in a healthy adult male. The case is being reported for its uncommon clinical presentation and the associated etio...

atypical mycobacterium granulomatous skin infections are often accured by mycobacterium marinum, m. ulcerans, m. fortuitum, and m. avium colonies. skin infections probably originate from an environmental source such as contacting with aquatic animals, fish farming and swimming in the pools, and inoculate into skin through skin wounds, scratches, trauma, and surgery. the lesions appear as purple...

Produced by the Reactions with Bovine Hemo-globin Show Antimicrobial Activity Against Non-tuberculosis Mycobacteria. We studied the anti-microbial effects of phenoxazines produced by the reaction of o-aminophenol or its derivatives with bovine hemoglobin, on seven species of mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis , Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium scro...

With the techniques found suitable for the growth of tubercle bacilli in HeLa cells (Shepard, 1955, 1957a) little extracellular bacterial growth occurs when virulent strains are used. When rapidly growing mycobacteria (Gordonand Smith, 1953, 1955) are introduced into the tissue cultures in the same concentration, bacterial growth in the extracellular tissue culture fluid is rapid and soon resul...

Two cultures of acid-fast bacilli with characteristics most closely resembling those of Mycobacterium fortuitum were recovered as casual isolates from sputa of a patient with an apparent brochogenic tumor. One of the cultures was consistenly cream colored to rosy buff. The other, however, changed from buff to rust to dark brown and had the gross appearance of a fungus culture.