Isolamento de micobactérias não-tuberculosas em São José do Rio Preto entre 1996 e 2005

Abstract

These results show the importance of the bacteriological diagnosis, since identification of the species enables early and appropriate treatment.

Clinical and Therapeutic Features of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“…In that study, some regional variability in the relative proportions of M. kansasii and MAC was evident, with a somewhat lower proportion of M. kansasii in the Southeast (18%) and South regions (13.7%) relative to the North (24.3%) ( 24 ). Other studies conducted in different areas of Brazil have found that M. kansasii infections range from 16.0% in Bahia ( 15 ) to 2.2% in São Paulo ( 12 ) and 0% in the northern Amazonian region ( 9 ). For M. kansasii , municipal water systems are the primary source of M. kansasii ; thus, the degree of urbanization is likely to affect isolation rates.…”

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by nested polymerase chain reaction in pulmonary and extrapulmonary specimens

“…In addition, the solutions used for digestion/decontamination of the samples can damage the mycobacteria. ( 4 , 25 )…”

“…The present study corroborates the results obtained at a referral center for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in the city of São José do Rio Preto (XV Subdivision of the São Paulo State Health Department), in which a 50% increase in the number of isolates was observed during the study period. ( 25 )…”

Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections in the State of Para, an Endemic Region for Tuberculosis in North of Brazil

“…Barreto and Campos (2000) found 35 patients with NTM and showed that isolates of the M. avium complex, M. terrae and M. fortuitum were most common in samples collected between 1994 and 1999 in North of Brazil. A study that evaluated respiratory samples of non-indigenous and indigenous patients from Amazonas State with suspected pulmonary TB identified 19 patients with NTM infection, but the study did not report the identity of the isolates at the species level (Santos et al, 2006 Zamarioli et al 2008;Pedro et al, 2008).…”

“…The impact, magnitude and regional dimension of NTM infections in countries where TB is endemic is hardly known (Gopinath & Singh, 2010), such as the case in Brazil, where most c a s e s o f i n f e c t i o u s N T M h a v e b e e n r e p o r t e d i n t h e s o u t h e a s t e r n r e g i o n a n d , m o r e specifically, in São Paulo (Barreto & Campos, 2000;Ueki et al, 2005;Zamarioli et al, 2008;Pedro et al, 2008). In the Amazon region, North of Brazil, little epidemiological information on this matter is available (da Costa et al, 2009).…”