TY - JOUR
TI - Isolation of Mycobacterium kumamotonense from a patient with pulmonary
infection and latent tuberculosis
AU - Kontos, Fanourios
AU - Mavromanolakis, Dimitrios Nikitas
AU - Zande,
AU - Marina Chari
AU - Gitti, Zoe Georgios
JO - Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
PY - 2016
VL - 34
TODO - 2
SP - 241-U181
PB - Elsevier
SN - 0255-0857
TODO - 10.4103/0255-0857.180356
TODO - Mycobacterium kumamotonense; nontuberculous mycobacteria; pulmonary
infection
TODO - Mycobacterium kumamotonense is a novel, slow-growing non-chromogenic
nontuberculous mycobacterium, which belongs to Mycobacterium terrae
complex. We report, for the first time in Greece, the isolation of M.
kumamotonense from an immunocompetent patient with pulmonary infection
and latent tuberculosis. M. kumamotonense was identified by sequencing
analysis of 16S rDNA and 65-kDa heat shock protein genes while by
commercial molecular assays it was misidentified as Mycobacterium
celatum. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed by the
reference broth microdilution method. The strain was susceptible to
amikacin, clarithromycin, rifampin, ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin,
rifabutin, ethambutol and linezolid.
ER -