Rapidly growing mycobacteria
rpoB Based Identification of Nonpigmented and Late Pigmenting Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria
... Nonpigmented and late-pigmenting rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are increasingly isolated in clin- ical microbiology laboratories. Their accurate identification remains problematic because ...
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Evaluation of Etest for susceptibility testing of rapidly growing mycobacteria
... of rapidly growing mycobacteria was the primary focus of this ...of rapidly growing mycobacte- ria, in which unsupplemented Mueller-Hinton medium was used, have suggested that adequate ...
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In Vitro Comparison of Ertapenem, Meropenem, and Imipenem against Isolates of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria and Nocardia by Use of Broth Microdilution and Etest
... to rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) and Nocardia remains difficult in part because of re- sistance to first-line antituberculous agents (for RGM) and other antimicrobial agents (for both RGM and ...
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Detection of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria in Routine Cultures of Samples from Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
... Rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are respiratory pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), but detection generally requires specialized cultures for acid-fast bacilli (AFB; AFB ...
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Evaluation of Various Culture Media for Detection of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria from Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
... nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) from the sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is challenging due to overgrowth by rapidly growing species that colonize the lungs of patients with ...of ...
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Variables Affecting Results of Sodium Chloride Tolerance Test for Identification of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria
... of rapidly growing mycobacteria, par- ticularly for distinguishing between Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium ...of rapidly growing mycobacteria and should be used, if ...
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PCR amplification and restriction endonuclease analysis of a 65 kilodalton heat shock protein gene sequence for taxonomic separation of rapidly growing mycobacteria
... of rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) belonging to 10 taxonomic groups were studied for restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns from a PCR-amplified 439-bp segment of the 65-kDa heat shock ...
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hsp65 Sequencing for Identification of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria
... Rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are increasingly rec- ognized as a cause of human infections (3, 25, ...of mycobacteria is heterogeneous in terms of epidemiology, clinical disease spectrum, ...
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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolated in Japan
... The development of novel treatment options is neces- sary since the effective antimicrobial treatment options against RGM, in particular against M. abscessus subsp. abscessus, are limited [3]. Oral medications need to be ...
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In Vitro Susceptibility Testing of Tedizolid against Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
... MICs for TZD were generally 1- to 4-fold less than the MICs for LZD. The rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) species and subspecies tested included M. abscessus subsp. abscessus, M. abscessus subsp. ...
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Determination of molecular species composition of C80 or longer chain alpha mycolic acids in Mycobacterium spp by gas chromatography mass spectrometry and mass chromatography
... The rapidly growing mycobacteria showed several types of profiles in a-mycolic acid composition, based on the average carbon numbers, the structure of a unit or a-alkyl branch, and the a[r] ...
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Mycobacterium neoaurum and Mycobacterium bacteremicum sp nov as Causes of Mycobacteremia
... As noted in the previous publication, there is a paucity of case reports of M. neoaurum and M. lacticola infections in the literature. The incidence of M. neoaurum-M. lacticola group infections likely has been ...
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Epidemiology of pulmonary disease due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in Southern China, 2013–2016
... Although China has achieved impressive reductions in TB prevalence and mortality over the past 20 years [8], NTM infections have become a serious issue, accounting for about one quarter of mycobacterial patient isolates ...
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Distribution of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria strains
... berculous mycobacteria (NTM) ...other rapidly growing species ...whereas rapidly gro- wing species are more frequently isolated from other tis- sues ...Asia, rapidly growing MOTT ...
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Differentiation of Phylogenetically Related Slowly Growing Mycobacteria by Their gyrB Sequences
... The conventional methods for identifying mycobacterial species are based on their phenotypic character- ization. Since some problematic species are slow growers, their taxonomy takes several weeks or months to identify. ...
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Differentiation of Phylogenetically Related Slowly Growing Mycobacteria Based on 16S 23S rRNA Gene Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequences
... (hsp65) has been described (31). Each technique has several advantages and disadvantages. The small number of polymor- phic positions within the 16S rDNA obviates the need of nu- cleotide sequencing (17, 23). The limited ...
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Identification of mycobacteria by specific precipitation of catalase with absorbed sera
... Catalase in extracts of 61 strains, representing 15 species of slowly growing mycobacteria and one of an intermediate species, Mycobacterium flavescens, were tested against the cross-abs[r] ...
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Susceptibility testing of slowly growing mycobacteria by a microdilution MIC method with 7H9 broth
... As previously noted, the current single-drug concentrations of INH and STR which are used in the proportion method usually do not allow one to distinguish primary drug resistance from ac[r] ...
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Surgical Resection of a Rapidly Growing Giant Pericardial Cyst: A Case Report
... Pericardial cysts usually follow a benign course in the majority of cases; however, symptomatic or large peri- cardial cysts require surgical resection, video-assisted thoracic surgery, or percutaneous aspiration with ...
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Identification and Evaluation of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reserves: Examples from Zagros and Central Iran Basins
... the rapidly growing importance of unconventional gas resources such as coal bed methane and that gas trapped in shale formations is rapidly becoming an important domestic ...
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