Infection with a Fastidious Mycobacterium Resembling <i>Mycobacterium simiae</i> in Seven Patients with AIDS

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Brief Reports1 October 1992Infection with a Fastidious Mycobacterium Resembling Mycobacterium simiae in Seven Patients with AIDSAnna Wald, MD, Marie B. Coyle, PhD, LaDonna C. Carlson, BS, Robert L. Thompson, MD, Thomas M. Hooton, MDAnna Wald, MDSearch for more papers by this author, Marie B. Coyle, PhDSearch for more papers by this author, LaDonna C. Carlson, BSSearch for more papers by this author, Robert L. Thompson, MDSearch for more papers by this author, Thomas M. Hooton, MDSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-117-7-586 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptA fatal infection with an unidentified acid-fast bacillus was recently reported in a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (1). The organism could not be cultured but was provisionally classified as a mycobacterium on the basis of electron microscopy and cell-wall lipid analysis. We report the clinical characteristics of seven patients with AIDS from whom we isolated a similar, unusually fastidious mycobacterium that we have been unable to identify definitively using standard methods....References1. HirschelChangMachPiguetCoxPiguet BHNPJJ. Fatal infection with a novel, unidentified mycobacterium in a man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. N Engl J Med. 1990; 323:109-13. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. MinnikinMinnikinParlettGoodfellow DSJM. Mycotic acid patterns of some rapidly-growing species of mycobacterium. Zentrale Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg [A]. 1985;259:446-60. MedlineGoogle Scholar3. ButlerJostKilburn WKJ. Identification of mycobacteria by high-performance liquid chromatography. J Clin Microbiol. 1991; 29:2468-72. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. AgyWallisPlordeCarlsonCoyle MCJLM. 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