2. Wolinsky E. State of the art: nontuberculous mycobacteria and associated disease. Am Rev Respir Dis 1979; 119:107–59. 3. Turenne CY, Tschetter L, Wolfe J, Kabani A. Necessity of quality-controlled 16S rRNA sequence database: identify nontuberculous Mycobacterium species. J Clin Microbiol 2001; 39: 3637–48. 4. Sato T, Shibuya H, Ohba S, Nokiri T, Shirai W. Mycobacteriosis in two captive Flori...

We prospectively studied 298 patients with cystic fibrosis (mean age 11.3 years; range 2 months to 32 years; sex ratio, 0.47) for nontuberculous mycobacteria in respiratory samples from January 1, 1996, to December 31, 1999. Mycobacterium abscessus was by far the most prevalent nontuberculous mycobacterium: 15 patients (6 male, 9 female; mean age 11.9 years; range 2.5-22 years) had at least one...

Symptomatic disease by nontuberculous mycobacteria has been linked to potable water from institutional and domestic potable water systems. Potable water samples were collected from homes and institutions of patients with AIDS. Colonization of potable water with nontuberculous mycobacteria was demonstrated in 230 (15%) of 1489 samples collected from domestic and institutional water systems of pa...

Mycobacterium fortuitum, of the class of nontuberculous mycobacteria, rarely causes cervical lymphadenopathy and head and neck masses. However, we treated a woman with a neck mass that was indeed caused by a mycobacterial infection. Our case is unique in that prompt recognition of the infection and treatment with antimicrobials averted surgery. Generally, both antibiotics and surgery are recomm...

Requests for direct molecular diagnosis of mycobacterial disease are increasingly warranted. The Anyplex MTB/NTM assay demonstrates sensitivities, specificities, and positive and negative predictive values of 1.00, 0.96, 0.93, and 1.00 for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and 1.00, 0.97, 0.75, and 1.00 for nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) detection, respectively, making it a suitable ...

BACKGROUND Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are pathogens that commonly affect the paediatric population and its most frequent manifestation is a cervicofacial lymphadenopathy. With the improvement of technologies, new species have been recently identified. CASE PRESENTATION We report the first case of NMT lymphadenitis in a child caused by Mycobacterium marseillense, a newly described speci...

BACKGROUND Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infection is an emerging, but neglected public health concern in China. FINDINGS To investigate diagnostic delay of NTM diseases in China, we analyzed 91 patients with pulmonary NTM infection in ShandongProvince. The median diagnostic delay time of the analyzed patients was 84 days, which was significantly associated with rural inhabitance (135 day...

2. Ellis EN, Schutze GE, Wheeler JG. Nontuberculous mycobacterial exit-site infection and abscess in a peritoneal dialysis patient. A case report and review of the literature. Pediatr Nephrol 2005;20:1016-1018. 3. White R, Abreo K, Flanagan F, Gadallah M, Krane K, el-Shahawy M, et al. Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients. Am J Kidney Dis....

Atypical mycobacteria have been described as long as 36 years ago, but it has only been in the last 10 years that the ability of these organisms to cause disease in man has been recognized. The most common pathological processes with which the atypical mycobacteria are associated occur in the lungs and in the cervical lymph nodes. More rare is joint pathology. We describe here a case of knee ar...