Clinical and microbiological features of definite Mycobacterium gordonae pulmonary disease: the establishment of diagnostic criteria for low-virulence mycobacteria

Conclusion
The time taken to detect a positive culture and subtype of the isolates could be used as the diagnostic criteria for definite M. gordonae pulmonary disease.

Source: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - August 18, 2015 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Morimoto, K., Kazumi, Y., Shiraishi, Y., Yoshiyama, T., Murase, Y., Ikushima, S., Kurashima, A., Kudoh, S., Goto, H., Maeda, S. Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research