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Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of rapidly growing mycobacteria

Author(s) -

R Gayathri,

K. Lily Therese,

Perinkulam Ravi Deepa,

S Mangai,

HN Madhavan

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of postgraduate medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 0972-2823

pISSN - 0022-3859

DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.65278

Subject(s) - medicine , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , mycobacterium , tuberculosis , intensive care medicine , pathology , biology

The rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) causing human infections primarily consist of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group, Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium chelonae. The antibiotic susceptibility testing is important to determine the appropriate therapy as the antibiotics used to treat RGM are different from those used for treating infections caused by slow growers of mycobacteria.

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