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Rapid growing mycobacterium

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Rapid growing mycobacterium consists of organism of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group and Mycobacterium chelonae/Mycobacterium abscessus group and these usually cause subcutaneous abscesses or cellulitis following trauma in immunocompetent patients.

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List of rapidly growing Mycobacteria

  • Mycobacterium fortuitum
  • Mycobacterium chelonae
  • Mycobacterium smegmatis
  • Mycobacterium abscessus
  • Mycobacterium mucogenicum
  • Mycobacterium peregrinum

    • Nonchromogenic

  • Mycobacterium abscessus
  • Mycobacterium agri
  • Mycobacterium alvei
  • Mycobacterium arupense
  • Mycobacterium fortuitum

    • Photochromogenic

  • M. kansasasii
  • M. szulgia (scotochromogen at 37*C, photochromogen at 25*C)
  • M. simiae
  • M. marinum

    • Scotochromogenic

    Yellow-Orange

  • Mycobacterium aichiense

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