Mycobacterium xenopi is a slow-growing scotochromogenic species of Mycobacterium. It was first reported by Schwabacher[1] in 1959, having been isolated in lesions found on a Xenopus laevis, but the possibility of human infection was not confirmed until 1965.
It has low pathogenicity in humans,[2] and where infections have been found they are closely associated with immunocompromised individuals.
^Schwabacher, Herta (2009). "A strain of mycobacterium isolated from skin lesions of a cold-blooded animal, Xenopus laevis, and its relation to atypical acid-fast bacilli occurring in man". Journal of Hygiene. 57 (1): 57–67. doi:10.1017/S0022172400019896. PMC 2218100. PMID 13641655.
^Mycobacterium Xenopi at eMedicine
Further reading
Skerman, V. B. D.; McGowan, V.; Sneath, P. H. A. (1980). "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 30 (1): 225–420. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
External links
Type strain of Mycobacterium xenopi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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English Journal
Prosthetic joint infection due to Mycobacterium xenopi: a review of the literature with a new case report.
Rodari P, Marocco S, Buonfrate D, Beltrame A, Piubelli C, Orza P, Fittipaldo VA, Bisoffi Z.
Infection. 2019 May;().
Extrapulmonary infections due to M. xenopi, particularly osteoarticular localizations, are rare. The purpose of this paper is to describe a case of prosthetic hip infection and to review the published literature on cases of M. xenopi osteoarticular infections. Literature search was performed in the
Radiologic types of Mycobacterium xenopi pulmonary disease: different patients with similar short-term outcomes.
Hirama T, Brode SK, Marras TK.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology. 2019 Feb;38(2)373-381.
Mycobacterium xenopi pulmonary disease (Mxe-PD) is common among nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in Europe and Canada. Associations between radiological pattern and clinical features and outcomes are inadequately studied in Mxe-PD. We sought to investigate clinical characteristics and outcome
Comparison of polymerase chain reaction-restriction enzyme analysis method and DNA sequence analysis results in the identification of non-tuberculous mycobacteria.
Appak Ö, Türkel S, Esen N, Özkütük AA.
Acta microbiologica et immunologica Hungarica. 2018 Dec;65(4)515-527.
The typing of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is important from a clinical and epidemiological perspective. The polymerase chain reaction-restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) method and DNA sequence analysis method were utilized to target a gene region that codes the 65-kDa heat-shock protein for ty