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Frequency of among Belgian patients, 2015 Free

Abstract

arouses an increasing public health concern, as this non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) has recently been associated with life-threatening cardiac infections. and are genetically very close but recently appeared to present different epidemiological and clinical significance. Therefore, it has become important for laboratories to use adequate techniques allowing precise species identification. To date, most commercially available laboratory assays cannot distinguish them and erroneously identify as . We performed a re-analysis of the 149 strains received by the Belgian National Reference Laboratory using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, representing 25 % of all NTM collected in 2015. We found that represents the majority (=94, 63 %) of the previous . This study reports the large presence of / among Belgian patients infected by an NTM and the predominance of the species among this group. This study also stresses the public health importance of and demonstrates the inability of commonly used laboratory techniques to correctly diagnose these infections.

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Keyword(s): chimaera , intracellulare , laboratory assay , non-tuberculosis mycobacterium and species identification
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Frequency of Mycobacterium chimaera among Belgian patients, 2015
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