Rapid growing mycobacterium

Rapid growing mycobacterium consists of organism of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group and Mycobacterium chelonae/Mycobacterium abscessus group and these usually cause subcutaneous abscesses or cellulitis following trauma in immunocompetent patients.

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

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