A previously undescribed, slowly growing, scotochromogenic mycobacterial strain (49061(T)) was isolated from a patient with pulmonary infections during the hsp65-sequence-based identification of Korean clinical isolates.
Clinical isolates of Mycobacterium avium (n=81) from patients with pulmonary infections who were HIV-negative and isolates (n=33) from HIV-positive patients were subjected to genetic analysis by PCR detection of three M. avium-specific insertion sequences (IS901, IS1245 and IS1311), and nucleotide sequencing of the heat-shock protein 65 (hsp65) gene.
We present the first case description of invasive N. cyriacigeorgica pulmonary infection in the United States identified to the species level by 16S rRNA and hsp65 sequence analysis.
A previously undescribed, slowly growing, scotochromogenic mycobacterium was isolated from a patient with symptomatic pulmonary infection during hsp65 sequence-based identification of Korean clinical isolates.