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- Title
Mycobacterium lentiflavum in Drinking Water Supplies, Australia.
- Authors
Marshall, Henry M.; Carter, Robyn; Torbey, Matthew J.; Minion, Sharri; Tolson, Carla; Sidjabat, Hanna E.; Huygens, Flavia; Hargreaves, Megan; Thomson, Rachel M.
- Abstract
Mycobacterium lentiflavum, a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium, is a rare cause of human disease. It has been isolated from environmental samples worldwide. To assess the clinical significance of M. lentiflavum isolates reported to the Queensland Tuberculosis Control Centre, Australia, during 2001-2008, we explored the genotypic similarity and geographic relationship between isolates from humans and potable water in the Brisbane metropolitan area. A total of 47 isolates from 36 patients were reported; 4 patients had clinically significant disease. M. lentiflavum was cultured from 13 of 206 drinking water sites. These sites overlapped geographically with home addresses of the patients who had clinically significant disease. Automated repetitive sequence-based PCR genotyping showed a dominant environmental clone closely related to clinical strains. This finding suggests potable water as a possible source of M. lentiflavum infection in humans.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENTS; POLYMERASE chain reaction; DRINKING water
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011, Vol 17, Issue 3, p395
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1703.090948