title: Cytopathic effect mimicking virus culture due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
abstract: Mycobacterium tuberculosis grew, from a bronchoalveolar lavage of a patient with AIDS, on a gentamicin-supplemented cell culture monolayer, causing a focal and slowly spreading cytopathic effect resembling that of a virological isolate. The same effect was observed after inoculation of two different inocula of M. tuberculosis onto the same cell culture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Fundación Jimenez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gadea
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zapardiel
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ruiz
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Gegúndez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Esteban
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Soriano
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000382:microbiology; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003588:Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000254:growth & development*