RT Book, Section
A1 Levinson, Warren
A1 Chin-Hong, Peter
A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A.
A1 Nussbaum, Jesse
A1 Schwartz, Brian
SR Print(0)
ID 1190860862
T1 Mycobacteria
T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264267088
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190860862
RD 2024/04/18
AB Mycobacteria  are  aerobic,  acid-fast  bacilli  (rods)  (Figure  21–1).  They  are  neither  gram  positive  nor  gram  negative  (i.e.,  they  are  stained  poorly  by  the  dyes  used  in  Gram  stain).  They  are  virtually  the  only  bacteria  that  are  acid-fast.  (One  exception  is  Nocardia  asteroides,  the  major  cause  of  nocardiosis,  which  is  also  acid-fast.)