title: [Report of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare associated with kidney mycobacteriosis].
abstract: Consecutive samples of urine from a patient presenting radiological images of multicystic kidneys were microbiologically analyzed searching the possible presence of acid-alcohol resistant bacilli. The patient had already undergone complementary tests, which evidenced a kidney failure. As a result, it was isolated a slow-growth non pigmented mycobacterial strain corresponding to group III of Runyon. It was classified as Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, according to conventional and alternative bacteriological studies, such as the analysis of fractions of mycobacterial mycolic acids by thin layer chromatography technique.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Pedro Kouri", Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. ciipk@ipk.sld.cu
authors.forename: Lilian M Mederos
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Cuervo
authors.forename: Francisco Rodríguez
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Francles Blanco
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Guillot
authors.forename: Joel Cabrera
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Miguel Echemendía
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Font
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015269:Mycobacterium avium Complex / Q000302:isolation & purification*