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| Miscellaneous zoonotic or potentially zoonotic Mycobacterium spp. |
Mycobacterium marinum
Infection with this organism causes nodules on the surface of both fresh- and salt-water fish. People are infected via contamination of breaks in the skin (e.g., when cleaning fish tanks). Infections in humans lead to self-limiting cutaneous lesions in immunocompetent individuals, but disseminated disease in immunosuppressed patients.
Mycobacterium genavense
This is a relatively newly discovered cause of a severe wasting condition in patients with AIDS. A recent report linked human infections to infection in a dog (the dog presented with fever, lymphadenopathy, splenic and prostatic enlargement and severe weakness) and a parrot (the parrot presented with acute respiratory distress).
Mycobacterium kansasii, M. fortuitum and M. phlei
These are soil mycobacteria that occasionally infect domestic animals and humans.
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