Identification of an emerging pathogen, Mycobacterium massiliense, by rpoB sequencing of clinical isolates collected in the United States

J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Jun;45(6):1978-80. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00563-07. Epub 2007 Apr 4.

Abstract

Mycobacterium massiliense is a rapidly growing mycobacterium that is indistinguishable from Mycobacterium chelonae/M. abscessus by partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing. We sequenced rpoB, sodA, and hsp65 genes from isolates previously identified as being M. chelonae/M. abscessus and identified M. massiliense from isolates from two patients with invasive disease representing the first reported cases in the United States.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques*
  • Chaperonin 60
  • Chaperonins / genetics
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / microbiology
  • DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases / genetics*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mycobacterium / classification*
  • Mycobacterium / enzymology
  • Mycobacterium / genetics
  • Mycobacterium / isolation & purification
  • Mycobacterium Infections / epidemiology*
  • Mycobacterium Infections / microbiology
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA*
  • United States / epidemiology

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Chaperonin 60
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • heat-shock protein 65, Mycobacterium
  • DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases
  • RNA polymerase beta subunit
  • Chaperonins