Antibiotic Susceptibility and Genotyping of Mycobacterium avium Strains That Cause Pulmonary and Disseminated Infection.

ABSTRACT: Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis mainly causes disseminated infection in immunocompromised hosts, such as individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and pulmonary infection in immunocompetent hosts. However, many aspects of the different types of M. avium subsp. hominissuis infection remain unclear. We examined the antibiotic susceptibilities and genotypes of M. avium subsp. hominissuis isolates from different hosts by performing drug susceptibility testing using eight antibiotics (clarithromycin, rifampin, ethambutol, streptomycin, kanamycin, amikacin, ethionamide, and levofloxacin) and variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing analysis for 46 isolates from the sputa of HIV-negative patients with pulmonary M. avium subsp. hominissuis disease without previous an

SUBMITTER: Uchiya KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5913955 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature