Jae Sun Park, Jung-In Choi, Ji-Hun Lim, Jong-Joon Ahn, Yangjin Jegal, Kwang Won Seo, Seung Won Ra, Jae Bum Jeon, Seon Ho Lee, Sung-Ryul Kim, Joseph Jeong
We used HPLC and AdvanSure real-time PCR (LG Life Sciences, Korea) to retrospectively analyze non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in 133 clinical specimens. The specimens were culture-positive for NTM and the HPLC method identified 130 strains of mycobacteria from the cultures (97.7%) at the species level. Among the isolates, 48 Mycobacterium. kansasii (36.1%), 39 M. intracellulare (29.3%), 17 M. avium (12.8%), 16 M. abscessus (12.0%), 6 M. fortuitum (4.5%), 2 M. szulgai (1.5%), 2 M. gordonae (1.5%), and 3 unclassified NTM strains (2...
September 2013: Annals of Laboratory Medicine