SIMILAR SEROVAR AND DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY PROFILES AMONG AIDS-RELATED MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM ISOLATES FROM DIVERSE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS

Authors
JACOBS NJ VONREYN CF GINE N DAWSON D
Citation
Nj. Jacobs et al., SIMILAR SEROVAR AND DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY PROFILES AMONG AIDS-RELATED MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM ISOLATES FROM DIVERSE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS, The American journal of the medical sciences, 313(6), 1997, pp. 352-354
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
The American journal of the medical sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029629
Volume
313
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
352 - 354
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9629(1997)313:6<352:SSADSP>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Serotyping was performed on Mycobacterium avium isolates from 40 AIDS patients from 5 geographic sites: Boston (17 patients), New Hampshire (4 patients), Finland (12 patients), Trinidad (3 patients), and Kenya (4 patients). Serovars were similar from the five sites. Serovars 4 an d 8 were the most common. In addition, minimal inhibitory concentratio ns to 8 antimicrobial agents were determined for 31 of these isolates and for 21 additional patient isolates from these sites. Minimal inhib itory concentration(90) values for clarithromycin, azithromycin, clofa zimine, amikacin, ethambutol, ciprofloxacin, sparfloxacin, and rifabut in were similar for isolates from the five geographic sites. Antimicro bial susceptibility patterns did not differ by serovar.