Abstract:We have isolated and identified the biotype of environmental mycobacteria from the expectorate of leprosy patients, their contacts, their drinking water supply and also from the sputa samples of tuberculosis paUents. 78% of the isolates from lepromatous leprosy patients and their contacts were Mycobacterium fortuitum-chelonae complex (MFC), 9% Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), 9% Mycobacterium scrofulaceum and 4=/o were Mycobactenum smegmatis. Among the isolates from tuberculosis patients 63% belonged to M. f… Show more
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