The Brief Case: Complexity of laboratory diagnosis of Mycobacterium genavense-a classic case of an unusual pathogen

Daniel Montelongo-Jauregui^{1

2}, Jessica McFarland³, Jonathan Pham⁴, Salika M Shakir^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
² ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
³ Department of Infectious diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton, California, USA.

Review

Daniel Montelongo-Jauregui et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2025.

. 2025 Apr 9;63(4):e0146324.

doi: 10.1128/jcm.01463-24. Epub 2025 Apr 9.

Daniel Montelongo-Jauregui^{1

2}, Jessica McFarland³, Jonathan Pham⁴, Salika M Shakir^{1

2}

¹ Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
² ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
³ Department of Infectious diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Colton, California, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: HIV; Mycobacterium genavense; NTM; fastidious isolates; mycobactin; nontuberculous mycobacteria.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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