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Antimicrobial susceptibility of nontuberculous mycobacteria from eye infectionsBarbara A Brown-Elliott
Department of Microbiology, Mycobacteria Nocardia Research Laboratory, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, TX 75708, USA
Cornea 31:900-6. 2012..To characterize formerly designated atypical or nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) associated with eye infections...
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, drug resistance mechanisms, and therapy of infections with nontuberculous mycobacteriaBarbara A Brown-Elliott
Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, USA
Clin Microbiol Rev 25:545-82. 2012..This article reviews the laboratory, diagnostic, and treatment guidelines together with established and probable drug resistance mechanisms of the nontuberculous mycobacteria...
Sulfonamide resistance in isolates of Nocardia spp. from a US multicenter surveyBarbara A Brown-Elliott
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA
J Clin Microbiol 50:670-2. 2012....
Successful treatment of disseminated Mycobacterium chelonae infection with linezolidB A Brown-Elliott
Mycobacteria Nocardia Laboratory and Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, TX 75708, USA
Clin Infect Dis 33:1433-4. 2001..We describe a 57-year-old man with steroid-dependent myasthenia gravis and progressive ulcerating leg nodules due to clarithromycin-resistant Mycobacterium chelonae. The patient was successfully treated with linezolid...
Newly described or emerging human species of nontuberculous mycobacteriaBarbara A Brown-Elliott
Mycobacteria Nocardia Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, USA
Infect Dis Clin North Am 16:187-220. 2002..The clinician must learn about these new pathogens to recognize them clinically and assist the laboratory in their recovery...
Comparison of in vitro activities of gatifloxacin and ciprofloxacin against four taxa of rapidly growing mycobacteriaBarbara A Brown-Elliott
Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Health Center, Tyler 75708, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 46:3283-5. 2002..Gatifloxacin was generally fourfold more active than ciprofloxacin. We recommend that both gatifloxacin and ciprofloxacin be tested routinely against rapidly growing mycobacteria...
Clinical and taxonomic status of pathogenic nonpigmented or late-pigmenting rapidly growing mycobacteriaBarbara A Brown-Elliott
University of Texas Health Center, Department of Microbiology, Tyler, Texas 75708, USA
Clin Microbiol Rev 15:716-46. 2002....
In vitro activity of linezolid against slowly growing nontuberculous MycobacteriaBarbara A Brown-Elliott
Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 47:1736-8. 2003..Linezolid has excellent therapeutic potential against most species of NTM...
Mycobacterium neoaurum and Mycobacterium bacteremicum sp. nov. as causes of mycobacteremiaBarbara A Brown-Elliott
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Department of Microbiology, 11937 U S Hwy 271, Tyler, TX 75708, USA
J Clin Microbiol 48:4377-85. 2010..Sequencing studies are currently required to identify these two species. Strain ATCC 25791 (originally submitted as an example of Mycobacterium aurum) is proposed to be the type strain of M. bacteremicum...
