TSUKAMURA (M.), VAN DER MEULEN (H.J.) and GRABOW (W.O.K.): Numerical taxonomy of rapidly growing, scotochromogenic mycobacteria of the Mycobacterium parafortuitum complex: Mycobacterium austroafricanum sp.
In the summary, the table 1, and the figure 2, the strain HSC-68 is cited as HSC68.
nov., a scotochromogenic, rapidly growing species isolated from a marine sponge.
The next two tubes were inoculated with a scotochromogenic strain (pigmentation produced in the dark and in the light).
Carotenogenesis is achieved in the absence of light by scotochromogenic mycobacteria.
A comparison of the pigmentation of the shielded tube that was exposed once to light with the unshielded tube determines whether the mycobacterium is scotochromogenic, photochromogenic, or nonphotochromogenic on the basis of the criteria as described in Figure 43.
M scrofulaceum, a scotochromogen, has been isolated from lymph node lesions in pigs, cattle, and certain nonhuman primates.
These organisms should be differentiated from M gordonae and M flavescens and from other slowly growing scotochromogenic mycobacteria that are common contaminants of water.
Numerous nonpathogenic, nonphotochromogenic mycobacteria that closely resemble potential pathogens can be isolated from water and soil: M nonchromogenicum, M gastri, M triviale, and M terrae, which closely resemble strains of the M avium complex, may be differentiated by in vitro laboratory examinations.
C.V. Abstract: A slow-growing mycobacterium was isolated from a cervical lymph node of an adolescent male.
When subcultured on L6wenstein-Jensen medium, the isolate produced smooth, scotochromogenic colonies less than 1 mm in diameter after 6 weeks of incubation at 25'C and 30'C (no growth was observed at 37'C or 43'C).
Like isolate B76676, Mycobacterium cookii is a scotochromogen that produces detectable growth at 22 °C and 31 °C (but not at 37 °C, 42'C, or 45'C) after 4 weeks.
Floyd MM; Gross WM; Bonato DA; Silcox VA; Smithwick RW; Metchock B; Crawford JT; Butler WR Division of AIDS, STD and TB Laboratory Research, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
A previously uncharacterized, slowly growing, scotochromogenicMycobacterium species was detected by HPLC analysis of the cell-wall-bound mycolic acids.
The mycolic acid pattern standard was shown to be a late-eluting, contiguous peak cluster occurring at approximately 8-9 min.
Scotochromogenic - makes orange pigment when light is available, brown pigment in the dark 4.
Mycobacterium scrofulaceum Scotochromogenic bacillus; looks like cat-scratch disease (Bartonella henselae) can get a single node or cluster in the submandibular area enlarges slowly over a period of weeks, then ruptures and calcifies (if left untreated).
szulgai is a scotochromogen, producing an orange pigment both in the dark and in light.(5) A unique feature of pigment production in M.
C, the pigment is only produced in a lighted environment (e.g., the organism is photochromogenic).
Slow hydrolysis of Tween 80 (trade name for a compound (polysorbitan mono-oleate) which identifies organisms which possess a lipase which will split the compound into oleic acid and polyoxyethylated sorbitol).
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Mycobacterium celatum pulmonary infection in the immunocompetent: case report and review. (Dispatches). - HighBeam ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
M. celatum strains were isolated on currently used liquid media in all reported cases (radiometric Bactec 12B and MB/BacT [Organon Teknika B.V., Boxtel, the Netherlands]), while samples from one of the published case-patients did not grow on conventional Lowenstein-Jensen solid medium, and growth has not been reported for samples from the second case-patient.
Data from an extended panel of biochemical and cultural tests for conventional identification have not been reported; however, the appearance of a scotochromogenic pale yellow pigment with growth at 45[degrees]C and a negative 3-day arylsulfatase test are in full agreement with our present and previous findings (7).
All strains showed a partial hybridization with Accuprobe MTB, which disappeared after 10 min of incubation with selection reagent.
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This strain was resistant to clarithromycin, isoniazid, ethambutol and rifampin and sensitive to amikacin, ciprofloxacin, cefoxitin, doxycycline, gentamicin, imipenem, and ofloxacin.
The biochemical profile of this isolate correlated well with published data for M. neoaurum, a rapid-growing scotochromogenic mycobacterium species.
The patient was treated with oral ciprofloxacin and doxycycline and her graft was removed due to coincident complications.
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Nov., A Slowly Growing, Scotochromogenic Mycobacterium [MM Floyd, WM Gross, DA Bonato, et al.,
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2000;50:1811-1816]: Article notes a previously uncharacterized, slowly growing, scotochromogenic Mycobacterium species was detected by HPLC analysis of the cell-wall-bound mycolic acids.
Investigators report that the mycolic acid pattern standard was shown to be a late-eluting, contiguous peak cluster occurring at approximately 8--9 min; the mycolic acid pattern was noted to be most similar in number of peaks and range of elution to that reported previously for Mycobacterium asiaticum.
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There are, however, other slow-grow- ing mycobacteria which can cause pulmonary infection.
Mycobacterium szulgai, first reported in 1972, is a scotochromogenic species which can affect human lungs, although human-to-human spread of infection is thought to be unlikely.
We have recently treated three cases of middle-aged to elderly persons(45`87 year-old), two of them had under- lying diseases (one with intrapulmonary and the other with extrapulmonary).