| Mycobacterium bacteremicum |
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Phylum Actinobacteria, Class Actinobacteria, Order Actinomycetales, Suborder Corynebacterineae, Family Mycobacteriaceae, Genus
Mycobacterium, Mycobacterium bacteremicum Brown-Elliott et al. 2012.
Mycobacterium, Mycobacterium bacteremicum Brown-Elliott et al. 2012.
Acid-fast bacillus.
Colonies are yellow, scotochromogenic and grows aerobically within 7 days on
standard mycobacterial media.
standard mycobacterial media.
Isolated from blood and posttraumatic wound or postsurgical infections.
Undetermined. Produce catheter-related infections.
It is susceptible (100%) to amikacin, cefoxitin, imipenem, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, doxycycline, minocycline, tigecycline,
linezolid, ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and gatifloxacin. It shows variable susceptibility to clarithromycin.
It is susceptible (100%) to amikacin, cefoxitin, imipenem, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, doxycycline, minocycline, tigecycline,
linezolid, ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and gatifloxacin. It shows variable susceptibility to clarithromycin.
- Brown-Elliott BA, Wallace RJJ, Petti CA, Mann LB, McGlasson M, Chihara S, Smith GL, Painter P, Hail D, Wilson R, et al.
Mycobacterium neoaurum and Mycobacterium bacteremicum sp. nov. as causes of mycobacteremia. J Clin Microbiol 2010; 48:
4377-4385. - Biswal, M., Singh, G., Jain, V. et al. P201: First report in the world of Mycobacterium bacteremicum causing a cluster of
postlaparotomy surgical wound infections. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2, P201 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-
S1-P201
Distinguishable from M. neoaurum only by 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
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