[Assessment of the invasiveness of rapidly-growing nonpigmented mycobacteria with the fibroblast microcolony assay].

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OBJECTIVE: The invasive capacity of rapidly-growing nonpigmented mycobacteria strains was evaluated by means of a fibroblast microcolony assay and related to the colony phenotype on Middlebrook 7H11 and to the clinical significance of the isolates. METHODS: Twenty-nine strains [Mycobacterium chelonae (8), M. fortuitum (6), M. peregrinum (5), M. abscessus (5), M. mucogenicum (4) and M. septicum (1)], proceeding...

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