Mycobacterium orygis Lymphadenitis in New York, USA

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 23; no. 10; pp. 1749 - 1751
• Main Authors: Marcos, Luis A, Spitzer, Eric D, Mahapatra, Rahul, Ma, Yupo, Halse, Tanya A, Shea, Joseph, Isabelle, Michelle, Lapierre, Pascal, Escuyer, Vincent E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.10.2017; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Aged; Analysis; antelope; DNA sequencing; Emigrants and Immigrants; Female; Genetic aspects; Genome, Bacterial; Genomics; Humans; India; Lymph Nodes - microbiology; Lymph Nodes - pathology; Lymphadenitis; Lymphadenitis - diagnosis; Lymphadenitis - microbiology; Lymphadenitis - pathology; Lymphadenitis in New York, USA; mycobacterium; Mycobacterium - classification; Mycobacterium - genetics; Mycobacterium - isolation & purification; New York; orygis; oryx; Phylogeny; Research Letter; rhesus monkey; Tuberculosis; waterbuck; Whole Genome Sequencing; New York; India; New York; USA; gyrB gene; bacteria; United States; antelope; lymphoma; G1113A; mycobacterium orygis; rhesus monkey; waterbuck; Rv2042c; genome; oryx; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria; lymphadenitis
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2310.170490

We report a case of lymphadenitis caused by Mycobacterium orygis in an immunocompetent person in Stony Brook, New York, USA. Initial real-time PCR assay failed to provide a final subspecies identification within the M. tuberculosis complex, but whole-genome sequencing characterized the isolate as M. orygis.