“…Extensive research in the past half century has demonstrated that beside its antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory, and anticancer action, curcumin also exerts antimicrobial effects (Aggarwal et al, ). In particular, it has bactericidal activity, it can synergize with antibiotics, and it also targets the virulence factors of several pathogens (Brown, ; Packiavathy, Sasikumar, Pandian, & Veera, ; Roudashti, Zeighami, Mirshahabi, Bahari, Soltani, & Haghi ; Tyagi, Singh, Kumari, Kumari, & Mukhopadhyay, ). Nontuberculous, rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) belonging to the Mycobacterium abscessus complex ( M. abscessus subsp.…”