Optimal detection and identification of Mycobacterium haemophilum in specimens from pediatric patients with cervical lymphadenopathy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 832-834

  Samra, Zmira ^a   Kaufmann, Lea ^a   Zeharia, Avraham ^b   Ashkenazi, Shai ^b   Amir, Jacob ^b   Bahar, Judy ^c   Reischl, Udo ^d   Naumann, Ludmilla ^d  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c HY LABORATORIES LTD   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033065892     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.832-834.1999     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Armstrong, K. L., R. W. James, D. J. Dawson, P. W. Francis, and B. Masters. 1992. Mycobacterium haemophilum causing perihilar or cervical lymphadenitis in healthy children. J Pediatr. 121:202-205.
2. Branger, B., A. Gouby, R. Oules, J. P. Balducci, G. Mourad, J. Fourcade, et al. 1985. Mycobacterium haemophilum and Mycobacterium xenopi associated infection in a renal transplant patient. Clin. Nephrol. 23:46-49.
3. Damato, J. J., and M. T. Collins. 1984. Radiometric studies with gas-liquid and thin-layer chromatography for rapid demonstration of hemin dependence and characterization of Mycobacterium haemophilum. J. Clin. Microbiol. 20:515-518.
4. Davis, B. R., J. Brumbach, W. J. Sanders, and E. Wolinsky. 1982. Skin lesions caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum. Ann. Intern. Med. 97:723-724.
5. Dawson, D. J., Z. M. Blacklock, and D. W. Kane. 1981. Mycobacterium haemophilum causing lymphadenitis in an otherwise healthy child. Med. J. Aust. 2:289-290.
6. Dawson, D. J., and F. Jennis. 1980. Mycobacteria with a growth requirement for ferric ammonia citrate, identified as Mycobacterium haemophilum. J. Clin. Microbiol. 11:190-192.
7. Dever, L. L., J. W. Martin, B. Seaworth, and J. I. I. Jorgensen. 1992. Varied presentations and responses to treatment of infections caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum in patients with AIDS. Clin. Infect. Dis. 14:1195-1200.
8. Fischer, L. J., F. D. Quinn, E. H. White, and C. H. King. 1996. Intracellular growth and cytotoxicity of Mycobacterium haemophilum in a human epithelial cell line (Hec-1-B). Infect. Immun. 64:269-276.
9. Kiehn, T. E., and M. White. 1994. Mycobacterium haemophilum: an emerging pathogen. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 13:925-931.
10. Kiehn, T. E., M. White, K. J. Pursell, N. Boone, M. Tsivitis, A. E. Brown, B. Polsky, and D. Armstrong. 1993. A cluster of four cases of Mycobacterium haemophilum infection. Bur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 12:114-118.
11. Krisjansson, M., V. M. Bieluch, and P. D. Byeff. 1991. Mycobacterium haemophilum infection in immunocompromised patients: case reports and review of the literature. Rev. Infect. Dis. 13:906-910.
12. Males, B. M., E. Timothy, T. E. West, and W. R. Bartholomew. 1987. Mycobacterium haemophilum infection in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. J. Clin. Microbiol. 25:186-190.
13. Mezo, A., F. Jennis, S. W. McCarthy, and D. J. Dawson. 1979. Unusual mycobacteria in 5 cases of opportunistic infections. Pathology 11:377-384.
14. Plemmons, R. M., C. K. McAllister, M. C. Garces, and R. L. Ward. 1997. Osteomyelitis due to Mycobacterium haemophilum in a cardiac transplant patient: case report and analysis of interaction among clarithrumycin, rifampin, and cyclosporine. Clin. Infect. Dis. 24:995-997.
15. Reischl, U., M. Pulz, W. Ehret, and K. Wolf. 1994. PCR-based detection of mycobacteria in sputum samples using a simple and reliable DNA extraction protocol. BioTechniques 17:844-845.
16. Rogers, P. L., R. E. Walker, H. C. Lane, F. G. Witebsky, J. A. Kovacs, J. E. Parrillo, and H. Masur. 1988. Disseminated Mycobacterium haemophilum infection in two patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Am. J. Med. 84:640-642.
17. Ryan, C. G., and B. W. Dwyer. 1983. New characteristics of Mycobaclerium haemophilum. J. Clin. Microbiol. 18:976-977.
18. Saubolle, M. A., T. E. Kiehn, M. H. White, N. F. Rudinsky, and D. Armstrong. 1996. Mycobacterium haemophilum: microbiology and expanding clinical and geographic spectra of disease in humans. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 9:435-447.
19. Schroeder, K. H., L. Naumann, R. M. Kroppenstedt, and U. Reischl. 1997. Mycobacterium bassicum sp. nov., a new rapidly growing thermophilic mycobacterium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47:86-91.
20. Sompolinsky, D., A. Lagziel, D. Naveh, and T. Yankielevitzt. 1978. Mycobacterium haemophilum sp. nov., a new pathogen of humans. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 28:67-75.
21. Straus, W. L., S. M. Ostroff, D. B. Jernigan, T. E. Kiehn, E. M. Sordillo, D. Armstrong, N. Boone, N. Schneider, J. O. Kilburn, V. A. Silcox, V. LaBombardi, and R. C. Good. 1994. Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of Mycobacterium haemophilum, an emerging pathogen in immunocompromised patients. Ann. Intern. Med. 120:119-125.
22. Thibert, L., F. Level, and B. Martineau. 1990. Two cases with Mycobacterium haemophilum infection in Canada. J. Clin. Microbiol. 28:621-623.
23. Tonjum, T., D. B. Welty, E. Jantzen, and P. L. Small. 1998. Differentiation of Mycobacterium ulcerans, M. marinum, and M. haemophilum: mapping of their relationships to M. tuberculosis by fatty acid profile analysis. DNA-DNA hybridization, and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36:918-925.
24. White, M. H., E. B. Papadopoulos, T. N. Small, T. E. Kiehn, and D. Armstrong. 1995. Mycobacterium haemophilum infections in bone marrow transplant recipients. Transplantation 60:957-960.
25. Zappe, C. H., D. Barlow, H. Zappe, I. J. Bolton, D. Roditi, and L. M. Steyn. 1995. 16S rRNA sequence analysis of an isolate of Mycobacterium haemophilum from a heart transplant patient. J. Med. Microbiol. 43:189-191.