Abstract
Mycobacterium sherrisii Pulmonary Disease, Burkina Faso.
Highlights
To the Editor: Pulmonary disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is increasing worldwide
In 2012, to detect possible drug resistance, we selected patients with pulmonary TB at the pulmonology division of Ouagadougou University Hospital (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), whose cases were classified as failing category II treatment
The clinical specimens investigated in Milan were negative for M. tuberculosis complex by specific PCR (GenoType MTBDRplus, Hain Lifesciences, Nehren, Germany) and grew NTM in culture
Summary
To the Editor: Pulmonary disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is increasing worldwide. Each patient provided 1 sputum sample for culture and first- and second-line drug susceptibility testing (DST). Of 314 samples NTM grew in culture for 36 (11%). Most NTM were identified as MAC (20 isolates).
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