Rapid growing mycobacterium

Rapid growing mycobacterium consists of organism of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group and Mycobacterium chelonae/Mycobacterium abscessus group and these usually cause subcutaneous abscesses or cellulitis following trauma in immunocompetent patients.

List of rapidly growing Mycobacteria

• Mycobacterium fortuitum
• Mycobacterium chelonae
• Mycobacterium smegmatis
• Mycobacterium abscessus
• Mycobacterium mucogenicum
• Mycobacterium peregrinum

Nonchromogenic

• Mycobacterium abscessus
• Mycobacterium agri
• Mycobacterium alvei
• Mycobacterium arupense
• Mycobacterium fortuitum

Chromogenic

Scotochromogenic

Yellow-Orange

• Mycobacterium aichiense

Photochromogenic

• Mycobacterium novocastrense (sp.nova)

See also

• Skin lesion

References