Demonstration of cord formation by rough Mycobacterium abscessus variants: Implications for the clinical microbiology laboratory

Alejandro Sánchez-Chardi; Francesc Olivares; Thomas F. Byrd; Esther Julián; Cecilia Brambilla; Marina Luquin

doi:10.1128/JCM.02322-10

Demonstration of cord formation by rough Mycobacterium abscessus variants: Implications for the clinical microbiology laboratory

Alejandro Sánchez-Chardi, Francesc Olivares, Thomas F. Byrd, Esther Julián, Cecilia Brambilla, Marina Luquin

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In low-income countries some infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria are misdiagnosed as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. In most of these settings the observation of microscopic cords is the only technique used to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the laboratory. In this article we definitively demonstrate that Mycobacterium abscessus, an emerging pulmonary pathogen, also forms microscopic cords. Copyright © 2011, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2293-2295
Journal	Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume	49
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02322-10
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2011

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