Mycobacterium abscessus
Mycobacterium abscessus: Environmental Bacterium Turned Clinical Nightmare
... Mycobacterium abscessus chest wall and pulmonary infection in a cystic fibrosis lung transplant 631. recipient[r] ...
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Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium abscessus Based on Tandem Repeat Polymorphism
... ycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing Mycobacterium species that has been increasingly recognized as an opportu- nistic human pathogen (6, 8) associated with both community- acquired (3) and ...
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A Case of Meningitis Caused by Mycobacterium abscessus in a Paediatric Patient
... Mycobacterium abscessus, a rapidly growing and potentially pathogenic Mycobacterium, is an environmental contaminant and is commonly found in tap water ...M. abscessus meningitis following VP ...
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Inaccuracy of Single Target Sequencing for Discriminating Species of the Mycobacterium abscessus Group
... Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterium (RGM) causing a wide spectrum of disease in humans, includ- ing pulmonary disease, skin and soft tissue disease, and dis- seminated disease ...
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An outbreak of post acupuncture cutaneous infection due to Mycobacterium abscessus
... to Mycobacterium abscessus, including man- agement with surgery and clarithromycin therapy and com- parison of strains by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain ...rium abscessus linked to ...
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Multisite Reproducibility of Etest for Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium abscessus,Mycobacterium chelonae, and Mycobacterium fortuitum
... mycobacteria Mycobacterium abscessus, Mycobacterium chelonae, and the Mycobacterium fortuitum group cause various forms of clinical disease, most frequently skin and soft tissue infections but ...
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Utility of Sequencing the erm(41) Gene in Isolates of Mycobacterium abscessus subsp abscessus with Low and Intermediate Clarithromycin MICs
... in Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. abscessus, calling into question the usefulness of macrolides for treating ...M. abscessus subsp. abscessus be changed from <2 to <4 g/ml and ...
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The Diverse Cellular and Animal Models to Decipher the Physiopathological Traits of Mycobacterium abscessus Infection
... Mycobacterium abscessus represents an important respiratory pathogen among the rapidly-growing non-tuberculous ...M. abscessus are increasingly found in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and are often ...
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Microscopic polyangiitis secondary to Mycobacterium abscessus in a patient with bronchiectasis: a case report
... Mycobacterium abscessus (M.abscessus) is one of the most pathogenic NTMs, particularly in those with underlying lung disease [5]. It is a multi-resistant organ- ism with limited antibiotic options and is ...
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Mycobacteriophage-drived diversification of Mycobacterium abscessus
... The authors have analyzed the proviruses integrated in 48 strains of the Mycobacterium abscessus complex. Interes- tingly, this analysis allowed detecting six new families of mycobacterioviruses, in ...
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Evaluation of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization−Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for Identification of Mycobacterium abscessus Subspecies According to Whole Genome Sequencing
... ycobacterium abscessus is one of the most common patho- gens isolated from patients with cystic fibrosis and the sec- ond most prevalent, rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacte- ria (NTM) species causing NTM ...
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Lsr2 is an important determinant of intracellular growth and virulence in Mycobacterium abscessus
... Mycobacterium abscessus presents either smooth (S) or rough (R) colony morphotypes leading to different clinical outcomes (Howard et ...M. abscessus resist phagocytosis by immune cells, a trait shared ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium abscessus, with Focus on Cystic Fibrosis
... Mycobacterium abscessus has been isolated increasingly often from the respiratory tracts of cystic fibrosis (CF) ...M. abscessus derived from 14 CF patients, three non-CF patients with chronic ...
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Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium abscessus Isolates from Patients in the United States and Comparisons to Globally Diverse Clinical Strains
... by Mycobacterium abscessus are responsible for a range of disease manifesta- tions from pulmonary to skin infections and are notoriously difficult to treat, due to innate resistance to many ...M. ...
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Sacroiliitis secondary to catheter-related bacteremia due to Mycobacterium abscessus (sensu stricto)
... of incubation, the growth of an irregular Gram-positive, rod-shaped and strictly aerobic organism was observed in all three. Catalase production was detected. Micro- scopic analysis of the three subcultures after Ziehl- ...
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Cohort Study of Molecular Identification and Typing of Mycobacterium abscessus, Mycobacterium massiliense, and Mycobacterium bolletii
... Mycobacterium abscessus is the most common cause of rapidly growing mycobacterial chronic lung ...M. abscessus-related species, ...M. abscessus is difficult and relies on the sequencing of one ...
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Dual β Lactam Combinations Highly Active against Mycobacterium abscessus Complex In Vitro
... ABSTRACT As a consequence of a growing population of immunocompromised in- dividuals, including transplant recipients and cystic fibrosis patients, there has been a dramatic increase in chronic infections caused by ...
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The First Structure of a Mycobacteriophage, the Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii Phage Araucaria
... The unique characteristics of the waxy mycobacterial cell wall raise questions about specific structural features of their bacterio- phages. No structure of any mycobacteriophage is available, although ⬃ 3,500 have been ...
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Serodiagnosis of Mycobacterium abscessus complex infection in cystic fibrosis.
... Cystic fibrosis patients with pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium abscessus complex have elevated specific antibody levels Tavs Qvist 1§, Tania Pressler 1, David Taylor-Robinson 2,[r] ...
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A Case of Ankle Osteomyelitis Caused by Mycobacterium abscessus
... and Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleic acid amplification tests showed repeated negative results, there was a delay in diagnosis and a failure of ...Although Mycobacterium abscessus requires both ...
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