Rapid growing mycobacterium

Rapid growing mycobacterium consists of organism of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group and Mycobacterium chelonae/Mycobacterium abscessus group[1] and these usually cause subcutaneous abscesses or cellulitis following trauma in immunocompetent patients.[2]^:340

List of rapidly growing Mycobacteria

• Mycobacterium fortuitum
• Mycobacterium chelonae
• Mycobacterium smegmatis
• Mycobacterium abscessus
• Mycobacterium mucogenicum
• Mycobacterium peregrinum

Nonchromogenic

• Mycobacterium abscessus
• Mycobacterium agri
• Mycobacterium alvei
• Mycobacterium arupense
• Mycobacterium fortuitum

Chromogenic

Scotochromogenic

Yellow-Orange

•Mycobacterium aichiense

Photochromogenic

•Mycobacterium novocastrense (sp.nova)

See also

• Skin lesion

References

1. Esteban J, Ortiz-Pérez A (December 2009). "Current treatment of atypical mycobacteriosis". Expert Opin Pharmacother. 10 (17): 2787–99. doi:10.1517/14656560903369363. PMID 19929702. S2CID 9877696.
2. James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0.