RT Book, Section
A1 Carroll, Karen C.
A1 Hobden, Jeffery A.
A1 Miller, Steve
A1 Morse, Stephen A.
A1 Mietzner, Timothy A.
A1 Detrick, Barbara
A1 Mitchell, Thomas G.
A1 McKerrow, James H.
A1 Sakanari, Judy A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1114734829
T1 Mycobacteria
T2 Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology, 27e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071824989
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1114734829
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  mycobacteria  are  rod-shaped,  aerobic  bacteria  that  do  not  form  spores.  Although  they  do  not  stain  readily,  after  being  stained,  they  resist  decolorization  by  acid  or  alcohol  and  are  therefore  called  “acid-fast”  bacilli.  Mycobacterium  tuberculosis  causes  tuberculosis  and  is  a  very  important  pathogen  of  humans.  Mycobacterium  leprae  causes  leprosy.  Mycobacterium  avium-intracellulare  (M  avium  complex,  or  MAC)  and  other  nontuberculous  mycobacteria  (NTM)  frequently  infect  patients  with  AIDS,  are  opportunistic  pathogens  in  other  immunocompromised  persons,  and  occasionally  cause  disease  in  patients  with  normal  immune  systems.  There  are  more  than  200  Mycobacterium  species,  including  many  that  are  saprophytes.  The  mycobacteria  that  infect  humans  are  listed  in  Table  23-1.