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Rapid growing mycobacterium

Type of bacterium From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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

Nonchromogenic

Chromogenic

Scotochromogenic

Yellow-Orange

Photochromogenic

  • Mycobacterium novocastrense (sp.nova)

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