Article
The white morphotype of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare is common in infected humans and virulent in infection models.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2001
Mukherjee S, Petrofsky M, Yaraei K, Bermudez L E, Cangelosi G A
Abstract excerpt
Isolates of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) form multiple colony types named red-opaque, white-opaque, red-transparent (RT), and white-transparent (WT). The newly discovered WT morphotype is multidrug resistant relative to other variants in vitro. To determine whether the WT morphotype occurs in humans, 32 MAI-positive clinical samples from 2 sites were plated directly onto indicator agar without prior...
Topics
- Animals
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Color
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Liver
- Mice
- Mycobacterium avium Complex
- Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection
- Phenotype
- Spleen
- Virulence