TY - JOUR AU - Schweickert, Birgitta AU - Goldenberg, Oliver AU - Richter, Elvira AU - Göbel, Ulf B. AU - Petrich, Annette AU - Buchholz, Petra AU - Moter, Annette T1 - Occurrence and Clinical Relevance of Mycobacterium chimaera sp. nov., Germany T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 9 SP - 1443 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Retrospective molecular genetic analysis of 166 Mycobacterium intracellulare isolates showed that 143 (86%) strains could be assigned to Mycobacterium chimaera sp. nov. Of 97 patients from whom M. chimaera sp. nov. was isolated, only 3.3% exhibited mycobacterial lung disease, whereas all M. intracellulare isolates caused severe pulmonary infections. KW - Mycobacterium avium complex KW - Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection KW - atypical mycobacterium infections KW - high-performance liquid chromatography KW - ribosomal DNA KW - ribosomal spacer DNA KW - molecular diagnostic techniques KW - molecular epidemiology KW - dispatch KW - Germany DO - 10.3201/eid1409.071032 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/9/07-1032_article ER - End of Reference