Mycobacterium gordonae infection in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus tropicalis)

Lab Anim. 2009 Jul;43(3):300-3. doi: 10.1258/la.2008.008035. Epub 2009 Feb 23.

Abstract

Mycobacterium gordonae is an occasional human pathogen associated with cutaneous infections and nodular granulomatous skin lesions. A case of cutaneous nodular infection caused by M. gordonae in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus tropicalis) is described and confirms this organism to be an opportunistic frog pathogen.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis / veterinary
  • Animals
  • Animals, Laboratory
  • DNA, Bacterial / analysis
  • Granuloma / microbiology
  • Granuloma / pathology
  • Granuloma / veterinary*
  • Humans
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / microbiology
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / pathology
  • Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / veterinary*
  • Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / genetics
  • Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / isolation & purification*
  • Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / pathogenicity
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction / veterinary
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / veterinary
  • Skin Diseases, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Skin Diseases, Bacterial / pathology
  • Skin Diseases, Bacterial / veterinary*
  • Xenopus*

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial