Mycobacterium kansasii
Molecular Analysis of Mycobacterium kansasii Isolates from the United States
... of Mycobacterium kansasii isolates from the United States by PCR restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) of the 441-bp Telenti fragment of the hsp-65 gene and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of genomic ...
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Heterogeneity and clonality among isolates of Mycobacterium kansasii: implications for epidemiological and pathogenicity studies
... Mycobacterium kansasii remains a significant cause of human disease, and it is one of the most frequent nontuberculous mycobacterial pathogens isolated from clinical ...M. kansasii constitutes a rare ...
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Clinical Implications of Mycobacterium kansasii Species Heterogeneity: Swiss National Survey
... Mycobacterium kansasii is, after Mycobacterium avium, the mycobacterial species most frequently responsible for disease due to nontuberculous mycobacteria ...M. kansasii is often recovered ...
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Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes of Mycobacterium kansasii Lung Disease in Korea
... While Mycobacterium kansasii is a common cause of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease in many developed countries, ...M. kansasii is infrequently isolated in ...M. kansasii lung ...
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Genotypic characterization of five subspecies of Mycobacterium kansasii
... Mycobacterium kansasii, like ...M. kansasii are the most frequently isolated mycobacteria, whereas ...M. kansasii is rare in ...M. kansasii and ...M. kansasii infections are ...
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<p>Molecular Identification, and Characterization of <em>Mycobacterium kansasii</em> Strains Isolated from Four Tuberculosis Regional Reference Laboratories in Iran During 2016–2018</p>
... Mycobacterium kansasii (M. kansasii) is a slow-grow- ing NTM and causes both pulmonary and extra-pulmonary infections in immunocompetent and immunosuppressed ...M. kansasii was the sixth most ...
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Evaluation of a Modified Single Enzyme Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Technique for Fingerprinting and Differentiating of Mycobacterium kansasii Type I Isolates
... The usefulness of single-enzyme amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis for the subtyping of Mycobacterium kansasii type I isolates was evaluated. This simplified technique classified 253 ...
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Mycobacterium kansasii as the Primary Etiology of Pulmonary Infections due to Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterium (NTM) in Patients Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): Experience from a Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina
... non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) lung infection in respiratory samples is challenging, unlike tuberculosis (TB) the isolation of an NTM in a respiratory culture does not automatically imply ...
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Immune Responses in Cattle Inoculated with Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mycobacterium kansasii
... the mycobacterium-induced pathology. Inoculation of M. kansasii elicited LAM-specific responses in four of four cattle and MPB83-specific responses in two of four cattle, as detected by ...
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Pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii Disease with Solitary Nodule
... (Figure 1(a) and Figure 1(b)). We performed bronchoscopic examinations such as bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), brushing, and transbronchial lung bi- opsy (TBLB) for a solitary nodule in the right upper lobe and ...
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Improved technique for isolation of Mycobacterium kansasii from water
... The investigations during the various phases of this survey have shown that large numbers of water samples, both potable and natural, can be properly processed by the method described in[r] ...
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Immune Responses to Defined Antigens of Mycobacterium bovis in Cattle Experimentally Infected with Mycobacterium kansasii
... M. kansasii are occasionally ...M. kansasii strain used in the present study was isolated from a tuberculous lesion ...the mycobacterium from the animals, all of which are indicative of effective ...
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Identification of Mycobacterium kansasii by DNA hybridization
... Briefly, this procedure involves digestion of chromosomal DNA with restriction enzymes and Southern blot hybridization by using plasmid pKK3535 as the probe.. This plasmid contains the r[r] ...
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Characterization of non tuberculous mycobacterium from humans and water in an Agropastoral area in Zambia
... as Mycobacterium avium complex, Mycobacterium gordonae, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium fortui- tum, Mycobacterium simiae, Mycobacterium senegalense, ...
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Clinical Analysis of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease Diagnosed as Coincidental Pulmonary Infection Due to Mycobacterium Species*
... or Mycobacterium chelonae disease was recommended as combined chemotherapy consisting of a macrolide, aminoglycoside, imipenem and cefoxitin and that for pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii disease was ...
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Direct Detection of Mycobacterial Species in Pulmonary Specimens by Two Rapid Amplification Tests, the Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Direct Test and the GenoType Mycobacteria Direct Test
... (MTC), Mycobacterium avium, My- cobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium kansasii, and Myco- bacterium malmoense directly from decontaminated respira- tory specimens, and the result is available ...
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Disparate Host Immunity to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Antigens in Calves Inoculated with M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis, M. avium subsp. avium, M. kansasii, and M. bovis
... The cross-reactivity of mycobacterial antigens in immune-based diagnostic assays has been a major concern and a criticism of the current tests that are used for the detection of paratuberculosis. In the present study, ...
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Amoebal Coculture of “Mycobacterium massiliense” sp nov from the Sputum of a Patient with Hemoptoic Pneumonia
... as Mycobacterium gastri and Mycobacterium kansasii (11); Myco- bacterium senegalense, Mycobacterium farcinogenes, and “Myco- bacterium houstonense” (formerly ...the Mycobacterium tuber- ...
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Assessment of Cross-Reactivity between Mycobacterium bovis and M. kansasii ESAT-6 and CFP-10 at the T-Cell Epitope Level
... like Mycobacterium kansasii, ...M. kansasii. Genes for M. kansasii homologues have also been described for other ...M. kansasii can cause disease in cattle presenting with lesions in ...
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Molecular analysis of clinical isolates previously diagnosed as Mycobacterium intracellulare reveals incidental findings of “Mycobacterium indicus pranii” genotypes in human lung infection
... related Mycobacterium species such as MAC, Myco- bacterium abscessus-Mycobacterium chelonae, Myco- bacterium farcinogenes-Mycobacterium senegalense, Mycobacterium ...
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