Journal
MICROORGANISMS
Volume 9, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9112345
Keywords
non-tuberculous mycobacteria; saprophytic environmental mycobacteria; potentially pathogenic mycobacteria; fish directed for consumption; environmental prevalence
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- Czech Health Research Council [NU20-09-00114]
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Members of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group (MFG) can cause clinical mycobacteriosis in fish, other animals, and humans. While a variety of MFG species have been isolated from fish, only three MFG species have been isolated from other animals. Some MFG species have never been reported in humans, and certain species have been found in diverse animal species.
Mycobacterium fortuitum group (MFG) members are able to cause clinical mycobacteriosis in fish and other animals including humans. M. alvei, M. arceuilense, M. brisbanense, M. conceptionense, M. fortuitum, M. peregrinum, M. porcinum, M. senegalense, M. septicum, and M. setense were isolated from fish with mycobacteriosis. In other animals only three MFG species have been isolated: M. arceuilense from camels' milk, M. farcinogenes from cutaneous infections often described as farcy , and M. fortuitum from different domestic and wild mammals' species. Out of 17, only 3 MFG species (M. arceuilense, M. lutetiense and M. montmartrense) have never been reported in humans. A total of eight MFG members (M. alvei, M. brisbanense, M. conceptionense, M. fortuitum subsp. acetamidolyticum, M. houstonense, M. peregrinum, M. porcinum, and M. septicum) have been isolated from both pulmonary and extrathoracic locations. In extrathoracic tissues five MFG species (M. boenickei, M. farcinogenes, M. neworleansense, M. senegalense, and M. setense) have been diagnosed and only one MFG member (M. fortuitum subsp. acetamidolyticum) has been isolated from pulmonary infection.
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