Objective:To investigate the prevalence of non-tuberculosis mycobacteria(NTM)among the samples deposited from the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory of Iran between 2011 and 2018.Methods:The study evaluated th...Objective:To investigate the prevalence of non-tuberculosis mycobacteria(NTM)among the samples deposited from the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory of Iran between 2011 and 2018.Methods:The study evaluated the prevalence of NTM among specimens from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis symptoms(n=15771)deposited at the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory of Iran from 2011 to 2018.Detection of Mycobacterium(M.)tuberculosis was based on presence of a 190-bp amplicon from IS6110 insertion sequence using Tb1 and Tb2 primers,and amplicon-negative specimens were tested for NTM and M.tuberculosis(refractory to IS6110 amplification)using restriction fragment length polymorphism PCR of hsp65 amplicon fragment.Results:A total of 7307(46.33%)M.tuberculosis and 658(4.17%)NTM specimens were found,the latter mainly comprising M.abscessus(10.18%),M.avium(2.28%),M.chelonae(8.97%),M.intracellulare(10.49%),M.kansasii(4.71%),and M.simiae(56.08%).Conclusions:As treatment for NTM differs from that for M.tuberculosis,accurate detection of Mycobacterium sp.is of public health significance.展开更多
Objective In this study, milk from a cow with mastitis was analyzed to determine the presence of mycobacterial infection. Milk quality and security problems pertaining to the safe consumption of dairy products were al...Objective In this study, milk from a cow with mastitis was analyzed to determine the presence of mycobacterial infection. Milk quality and security problems pertaining to the safe consumption of dairy products were also discussed in this study. Methods Milk was preprocessed with 4% NaOH. Then, mycobacteria were isolated from the milk sample on L-J medium. The isolate was identified using multiple loci Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and multi-locus sequence analysis with 16S rRNA, sodA, hsp65, and ITS genes. The drug sensitivity of the isolate to 27 antibiotics was tested through alamar blue assay. Results Smooth, moist, pale yellow colonies appeared on the L-J medium within a week after inoculation. Based on the results of multiple loci PCR analysis, the isolate was preliminarily identified as non-tuberculous mycobacteria. The 16S rRNA, SodA, hsp65, and ITS gene sequences of the isolate exhibited 99%, 99%, 99%, and 100% similarities, respectively, with those of the published reference strains of Mycobacteriurn elephantis (M. elephantis). The drug sensitivity results showed that the strain is resistant to isoniazid, p-aminosalicylic acid, and trimesulf but is sensitive to ofloxacin, rifampicin, amikacin, capreomycin, moxifloxacin, kanamycin, levofloxacin, cycloserine, ethambutol, streptomycin, tobramycin, rifabutin, ciprofloxacin, linezolid, cefoxitin, clarithromycin, and minocycline. Conclusion To the best of our knowledge, this study is initially to report the isolation of M. elephantis from the milk of a cow with mastitis in China.展开更多
Objective:To characterize mycobaclerium isolates from pulmomary tuberculosis suspected cases visiting National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute,for diagnosis of pu...Objective:To characterize mycobaclerium isolates from pulmomary tuberculosis suspected cases visiting National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute,for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis from January 4 to February 22.2010 with total samples of 263.Methods:Sputum specimens were collected and processed:the deposits were cultured.Por culturing Lowenstein Jensen medium(LJ) and Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube(BACTEC MGIT 960) were used.Capilia Neo was used for detecting NTM isolates from isolates of BACTEC MGIT960.In Armauer Hansen Research Institute,Addis Ababa Ethiopia,Deletion typing PCR method for species identification(from confirmed Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex(MTBC) isolates by Capilia Neo) uas done.Results:Out of 263 enrolled in the study.124 and 117 ol them were positive for mycobaeterium growth by BACTEC MGIT 960 and 1.1 culture method,respectively.From BACTEC MGIT 960 positive media of 124 isolates.117 were randomly taken to perform Capilia TB Neo lest.From these 7(6%) of them were found to be NTM and 110(94%) were MTBC.From these 110 MTBC isolates,81 of them were randomly taken and run by the deletion typing RD9 PCR method of molecular technique.Out of these 78(96.3%) were found to be species of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 3(3.7%) were found to be not in the MTBC.Regarding the types of methods of culture media.Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube(BACTEC MGIT 960) method was found to have excellent agreement(with kappa value ol 0.78) with the routine method of LJ.Conclusions:Pulmonary tuberculosis suspected cases visiting the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at EHNR1 that were confirmed to be pulmonary tuberculosis are caused by the species of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.hence treatment regimen including pyrazinamide can be applied to the patients as the first choice in the study area in Addis Ababa.Ethiopia.There is indication of the presence of NTM in patients visiting the tuberculosis reference laboratory and this is important because NTM is known lo cause pulmonary disease similar with sign and symptom ol pulmonary tuberculosis but different in treatment.BACTEC MGIT 960 has excellent agreement with LJ media but it has high tendency of having high contamination rale unless a better decontamination method is designed.展开更多
BACKGROUND Various etiologies contribute to pathological fractures,including bone infections.Recently,non-tuberculosis Mycobacterium-related bone infections among patients with anti-interferon-gamma autoantibody-induc...BACKGROUND Various etiologies contribute to pathological fractures,including bone infections.Recently,non-tuberculosis Mycobacterium-related bone infections among patients with anti-interferon-gamma autoantibody-induced adult-onset immunodeficiency has raised concerns in Southeast Asia,with the common presentations including osteomyelitis.However,it also rarely manifests as traumatic fractures,as reported in this case.CASE SUMMARY A diabetic female fractured her humerus after a traumatic accident and received fixation surgery.Abnormal necrotic bone tissue and abscess formation were noted,and she was diagnosed with a pathological fracture due to nontuberculosis Mycobacterium infection.Multiple bone involvement was also revealed in a bone scan.Anti-interferon-gamma autoantibodies were then checked due to an unexplained immunocompromised status and found to be positive.Her humerus fracture and multiple bone infections healed after steroid and anti-non-tuberculosis Mycobacterium medication treatment following fixation surgery.CONCLUSION Comprehensive preoperative evaluations may help identify pathological fractures and guide the treatment course.展开更多
A 74-year-old man with terminal chronic kidney disease, under hemodialysis and with residual diuresis, was admitted due to myalgia, arthralgia, fever and pyuria in the previous 10 days. The patient had a recent diagno...A 74-year-old man with terminal chronic kidney disease, under hemodialysis and with residual diuresis, was admitted due to myalgia, arthralgia, fever and pyuria in the previous 10 days. The patient had a recent diagnosis of high-grade non-invasive bladder cancer and was doing weekly BCG intravesical administrations. The symptoms started three days before the fifth administration. He had done cefixime as an outpatient and started piperacillin-tazobactam on hospital admission, but the fever persisted, and there was no bacterial isolation in urine or blood culture. On the tenth and seventeenth day after the last BCG intravesical administration Mycobacterium bovis was still isolated in the urine culture. The diagnosis of BCGitis was made and treatment was started, with a good response. Forty days after the last administration and under treatment, the culture remained positive for Mycobacterium bovis in the urine. We raise the question about the safety of BCG administration in patients with residual diuresis.展开更多
基金supported by funding from the Mycobacteriology Research Center,National Tuberculosis and Lung Research Institute(NRITLD),Masih Daneshvari Hospital(Grant No.16597)
文摘Objective:To investigate the prevalence of non-tuberculosis mycobacteria(NTM)among the samples deposited from the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory of Iran between 2011 and 2018.Methods:The study evaluated the prevalence of NTM among specimens from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis symptoms(n=15771)deposited at the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory of Iran from 2011 to 2018.Detection of Mycobacterium(M.)tuberculosis was based on presence of a 190-bp amplicon from IS6110 insertion sequence using Tb1 and Tb2 primers,and amplicon-negative specimens were tested for NTM and M.tuberculosis(refractory to IS6110 amplification)using restriction fragment length polymorphism PCR of hsp65 amplicon fragment.Results:A total of 7307(46.33%)M.tuberculosis and 658(4.17%)NTM specimens were found,the latter mainly comprising M.abscessus(10.18%),M.avium(2.28%),M.chelonae(8.97%),M.intracellulare(10.49%),M.kansasii(4.71%),and M.simiae(56.08%).Conclusions:As treatment for NTM differs from that for M.tuberculosis,accurate detection of Mycobacterium sp.is of public health significance.
基金supported by the project 81401647 of Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject 2014SKLID104 of State Key Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Prevention and Controlprojects 16411967900 of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality
文摘Objective In this study, milk from a cow with mastitis was analyzed to determine the presence of mycobacterial infection. Milk quality and security problems pertaining to the safe consumption of dairy products were also discussed in this study. Methods Milk was preprocessed with 4% NaOH. Then, mycobacteria were isolated from the milk sample on L-J medium. The isolate was identified using multiple loci Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and multi-locus sequence analysis with 16S rRNA, sodA, hsp65, and ITS genes. The drug sensitivity of the isolate to 27 antibiotics was tested through alamar blue assay. Results Smooth, moist, pale yellow colonies appeared on the L-J medium within a week after inoculation. Based on the results of multiple loci PCR analysis, the isolate was preliminarily identified as non-tuberculous mycobacteria. The 16S rRNA, SodA, hsp65, and ITS gene sequences of the isolate exhibited 99%, 99%, 99%, and 100% similarities, respectively, with those of the published reference strains of Mycobacteriurn elephantis (M. elephantis). The drug sensitivity results showed that the strain is resistant to isoniazid, p-aminosalicylic acid, and trimesulf but is sensitive to ofloxacin, rifampicin, amikacin, capreomycin, moxifloxacin, kanamycin, levofloxacin, cycloserine, ethambutol, streptomycin, tobramycin, rifabutin, ciprofloxacin, linezolid, cefoxitin, clarithromycin, and minocycline. Conclusion To the best of our knowledge, this study is initially to report the isolation of M. elephantis from the milk of a cow with mastitis in China.
文摘Objective:To characterize mycobaclerium isolates from pulmomary tuberculosis suspected cases visiting National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute,for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis from January 4 to February 22.2010 with total samples of 263.Methods:Sputum specimens were collected and processed:the deposits were cultured.Por culturing Lowenstein Jensen medium(LJ) and Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube(BACTEC MGIT 960) were used.Capilia Neo was used for detecting NTM isolates from isolates of BACTEC MGIT960.In Armauer Hansen Research Institute,Addis Ababa Ethiopia,Deletion typing PCR method for species identification(from confirmed Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex(MTBC) isolates by Capilia Neo) uas done.Results:Out of 263 enrolled in the study.124 and 117 ol them were positive for mycobaeterium growth by BACTEC MGIT 960 and 1.1 culture method,respectively.From BACTEC MGIT 960 positive media of 124 isolates.117 were randomly taken to perform Capilia TB Neo lest.From these 7(6%) of them were found to be NTM and 110(94%) were MTBC.From these 110 MTBC isolates,81 of them were randomly taken and run by the deletion typing RD9 PCR method of molecular technique.Out of these 78(96.3%) were found to be species of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 3(3.7%) were found to be not in the MTBC.Regarding the types of methods of culture media.Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube(BACTEC MGIT 960) method was found to have excellent agreement(with kappa value ol 0.78) with the routine method of LJ.Conclusions:Pulmonary tuberculosis suspected cases visiting the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at EHNR1 that were confirmed to be pulmonary tuberculosis are caused by the species of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.hence treatment regimen including pyrazinamide can be applied to the patients as the first choice in the study area in Addis Ababa.Ethiopia.There is indication of the presence of NTM in patients visiting the tuberculosis reference laboratory and this is important because NTM is known lo cause pulmonary disease similar with sign and symptom ol pulmonary tuberculosis but different in treatment.BACTEC MGIT 960 has excellent agreement with LJ media but it has high tendency of having high contamination rale unless a better decontamination method is designed.
文摘BACKGROUND Various etiologies contribute to pathological fractures,including bone infections.Recently,non-tuberculosis Mycobacterium-related bone infections among patients with anti-interferon-gamma autoantibody-induced adult-onset immunodeficiency has raised concerns in Southeast Asia,with the common presentations including osteomyelitis.However,it also rarely manifests as traumatic fractures,as reported in this case.CASE SUMMARY A diabetic female fractured her humerus after a traumatic accident and received fixation surgery.Abnormal necrotic bone tissue and abscess formation were noted,and she was diagnosed with a pathological fracture due to nontuberculosis Mycobacterium infection.Multiple bone involvement was also revealed in a bone scan.Anti-interferon-gamma autoantibodies were then checked due to an unexplained immunocompromised status and found to be positive.Her humerus fracture and multiple bone infections healed after steroid and anti-non-tuberculosis Mycobacterium medication treatment following fixation surgery.CONCLUSION Comprehensive preoperative evaluations may help identify pathological fractures and guide the treatment course.
文摘A 74-year-old man with terminal chronic kidney disease, under hemodialysis and with residual diuresis, was admitted due to myalgia, arthralgia, fever and pyuria in the previous 10 days. The patient had a recent diagnosis of high-grade non-invasive bladder cancer and was doing weekly BCG intravesical administrations. The symptoms started three days before the fifth administration. He had done cefixime as an outpatient and started piperacillin-tazobactam on hospital admission, but the fever persisted, and there was no bacterial isolation in urine or blood culture. On the tenth and seventeenth day after the last BCG intravesical administration Mycobacterium bovis was still isolated in the urine culture. The diagnosis of BCGitis was made and treatment was started, with a good response. Forty days after the last administration and under treatment, the culture remained positive for Mycobacterium bovis in the urine. We raise the question about the safety of BCG administration in patients with residual diuresis.