| epidemiology of infection by nontuberculous mycobacteria. vi. identification and use of epidemiologic markers for studies of mycobacterium avium, m. intracellulare, and m. scrofulaceum. | a comparison of clinical and environmental (e.g., soil, dust, water, and aerosol) isolates of the mycobacterium avium-intracellulare and m. scrofulaceum (mais) group has been made. the frequency of m. avium-intracellulare clinical isolates able to grow without oadc enrichment, able to grow at 43 degrees c, or express resistance to streptomycin or cadmium was significantly higher than those among environmental isolates. only the frequency of clinical m. scrofulaceum isolates able to grow at 43 de ... | 1986 | 3729160 |
| recent experience in the epidemiology of disease caused by atypical mycobacteria. | to obtain information on the epidemiology of mycobacteriosis, water and air samples collected along the east coast of the united states were examined for mycobacteria. mycobacterium avium-intracellulare-scrofulaceum (mais) were isolated from 25% of the water, samples, mostly those from south carolina, georgia, and the gulf states. mycobacterium kansasii and mycobacterium marinum were not found, probably because of the detrimental effects of the naoh used to decontaminate the samples. mais strain ... | 1981 | 7339831 |