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Table 2 Rapid growing (RGM) and slow growing mycobacteria (SGM) isolated from different environmental sources in Uganda.

From: Isolation of non-tuberculous mycobacteria from pastoral ecosystems of Uganda: Public Health significance

Category

Mycobacterial species

   

Sample source

  

Total

  

Water

  

Soil

  

Faecal

 
  

House

hold

Valley

dam

Stream

Pig

shelter

Cattle

kraal

Water

source

Pig

Cattle

 

RGM

M. fortuitum- peregrinum complex

2

1

 

3

1

3

1

1

12

 

M. parafortuitum

   

1

    

1

 

M. vanbaaleni

     

1

  

1

 

M. chubuense

     

1

  

1

Total RGM

 

2

1

 

4

1

5

1

1

15

SGM

M. avium complex

2

  

1

1

1

  

5

 

M. intracellulare

1

1

   

7

  

9

 

M. gordonae

4

 

1

     

5

 

M. terrae

1

       

1

 

M. arupense

1

       

1

 

M. nonchromogenicum

3

 

1

  

1

  

5

 

M. hiberniae

    

1

   

1

 

M. engbaekii

    

1

  

1

2

 

M. kubicae

2

       

2

 

M. senuense

 

1

      

1

 

M. simiae

1

       

1

Total SGM

 

15

2

2

1

3

9

0

1

33

Grand total

 

17

3

2

5

4

14

1

2

48

%

 

35.4

6.3

4.2

10.4

8.3

29.2

2.1

4.2

100