Skip to content
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Menu
Home
About Us
Resources
Profiles Metrics
Authors Directory
Institutions Directory
Top Authors
Top Institutions
Top Sponsors
AI Digest
Contact Us
Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
immunology and microbiology
Isolation and characteristics of Mycobacterium avium complex from water and soil samples in Uganda
Tubercle and Lung Disease, Volume 76, No. 6, Year 1995
Notification
URL copied to clipboard!
Description
Setting: Mycobacterium avium complex organisms have not been isolated from late stage AIDS patients in Uganda. This could possibly be due to the absence of M. avium complex in the Uganda environment. Objective and Design: Determine whether M. avium complex organisms could be isolated from water and soils collected in the living environment of Ugandan AIDS patients. Results: Representatives of the M. avium complex were isolated from 3 of 7 (43%) water and 3 of 7 (43%) soil samples collected in Kampala, Uganda. The average number of colony-forming units per ml water was 3.3 and average colony-forming units per gram of soil was 7825. In terms of growth characteristics, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, and the presence or absence of plasmids and IS901, Ugandan M. avium complex isolates were similar to those isolated from the US and European AIDS patients and their environment. Conclusion: M. avium complex organisms sharing genetic and physiological characteristics of M. avium complex isolates recovered from patients with AIDS can be isolated from water and soil samples in Uganda. © 1995.
Authors & Co-Authors
Eaton, T.
United States, Blacksburg
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Falkinham, Joseph Oliver
United States, Blacksburg
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Aisu, Thomas O.
Uganda, Kampala
Makerere University
Daniel, Thomas M.
United States, Cleveland
Case Western Reserve University
Statistics
Citations: 24
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0962-8479(95)90536-7
ISSN:
09628479
Research Areas
Environmental
Genetics And Genomics
Infectious Diseases
Study Locations
Uganda