[Report of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare associated with kidney mycobacteriosis].
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.
Cuervo
Lilian M Mederos
LM
Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Pedro Kouri", Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. ciipk@ipk.sld.cu
Martínez
Francisco Rodríguez
FR
Guillot
Francles Blanco
FB
Martínez
Joel Cabrera
JC
Font
Miguel Echemendía
ME
D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015269:Mycobacterium avium Complex / Q000302:isolation & purification*