Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0011703).
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Rapidly growing mycobacteria are ubiquitous in the environment and are increasingly being recognized as opportunistic pathogens. Recently, a new species, Mycobacteium conceptionense, has been validated from the Mycobacterium fortuitum third biovariant complex by molecular analysis. However, there are few reports, and postsurgical wound infection by this species is rare. We report a case of postsurgical wound infection caused by M. conceptionense in an immunocompetent patient that was identified by a sequencing analysis of 16S rRNA, hps65, and rpoB genes.
신속발육항산균은 자연환경에서 흔히 검출되는 균으로, 기회감염병원체로 인체감염의 주요 원인균으로서 인식되고 있다. M. conceptionense는 분자역학적 분석을 통해 M. fortuitum의 세번째 생체변이종에서 분리되어 새로운 종으로 명명되었다. 그러나 이 균에 의한 감염 보고는 많지 않고 특히 수술후 창상 감염에 대한 보고는 거의 없다. 이에 저자들은 16S rRNA, hsp65 및 rpoB 유전자 염기순서분석을 이용하여 동정한 M. conceptionense에 의한 수술 후 창상감염을 보고하고자 한다.
This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0011703).