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

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Summary

Introduction

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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