%0 Journal Article
%T Mycobacterium simiae infection in a patient with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
%A Sampaio
%A J.L.M.
%A Artiles
%A N.
%A Pereira
%A R.M.G.
%A Souza
%A J.R.
%A Leite
%A J.P.G.
%J Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
%D 2001
%I Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
%R 10.1590/S1413-86702001000600010
%X mycobacterium simiae is usually an environmental contaminant rarely associated with human disease. we report a fatal case of m.simiae infection in a 37 year old, hiv positive, male from whom the organism was isolated from blood culture. the identification of m.simiae was performed using dna amplification followed by analysis on 3% agarose gel of the amplicon fragments after digestion by restriction endonucleases. the precise identification of mycobacterial isolates to the species level is important, with both epidemiological and therapeutic implications.
%K mycobacterium simiae
%K aids
%K rflp.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-86702001000600010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en