Tsukamurella is an aerobic, Gram-positive and nonmotile bacterium. It was first isolated in 1941 from the mycetoma and ovaries of the bedbug. The primary strains were named Corynebacterium paurometabolum and Gordona aurantiaca and are different from the Collins et al., 1988 classification of the new Tsukamurella genus. Human infections with Tsukamurella species are rare because the species is a...

Arthrographis kalrae is a hyalin fungus. It is a saprophyte of the environment, mainly found in soil and compost. In recent years, cases of opportunistic infections attributed to this pathogen have been described. Our patient was a 19-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis. She presented a bacterial and fungal pulmonary colonization with Aspergillus fumigatus and Arthrographis. kalrae. After her l...

Melioidosis is a zoonosis caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, saprophyte bacteria that widely found in environment. This causes various animal species with clinical manifestations vary depending on species, but generally fever, depression, weight loss, respiratory sign, lameness, swelling of joints, and potentially death. The incidence humans has been reported many countries it e...

Definitive classification of leptospires according to serotype rests with use of the microscopic agglutination and agglutinin-absorption tests. R. C. Johnson and P. Rogers (J. Bacteriol. 88:1618, 1964) observed inhibition of pathogenic serotypes by the purine analogue 8-azaguanine, whereas saprophytic serotypes were able to grow. This report is concerned with the effect of 8-azaguanine on growt...

Bacillus subtilis spores are being used for oral bacteriotherapy and bacterioprophylaxis of gastrointestinal disorders in both humans and animals. Since B. subtilis is an aerobic saprophyte, how spores may benefit the gut microbiota is an intriguing question, since other probiotics such as Lactobacillus spp. which colonize the gut are anerobes. As a first step in understanding the potential eff...

MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM is considered a ubiquitous, rapidly growing atypical mycobacterium readily isolated from soil, water, domestic and wild animals, milk, and foods. 1 Although originally believed to be a saprophyte, M. fortuitum has become rarely associated with human infections. Most commonly, reported clinical infections are postsurgical, cutaneous, or pulmonary. 2 The rise in clinical s...

Until 1960, 179 cases of infection with Nocardia asteroides had been described in the world literature. Seventeen cases in children were reported by 1963. The organism is a common saprophyte in nature with probably a world-wide distribution. Infection can be primary but is more common in patients with underlying malignancy, auto-immune disease or preceding tuberculosis. Sulphonamides, particula...

Opportunistic subcutaneous fungal infections are increasing nowadays due to the growing number of medical conditions causing immunosuppression, especially organ transplant. The incidence rate of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis is very low. Most studies found are case reports. They showed a wide variation of clinical presentations. Pyrenochaeta romeroi, a fungus from the Dematiaceae group is a sa...

Rhodotorula spp, though considered a common saprophyte, recently has been reported as causative agent of opportunistic mycoses. We present a case of meningitis in an immunocompromised human immunodeficiency virus infected patient who presented with longstanding fever. He was diagnosed as a case of chronic meningitis. Diagnosis was confirmed by cell cytology, India ink preparation, Gram staining...