Περίληψη:
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.
Συγγραφείς:
Kontos, Fanourios
Mavromanolakis, Dimitrios Nikitas
Zande,
Marina Chari
Gitti, Zoe Georgios
