Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana from 1994 to 2012

Table 3

Isolation patterns of rarely isolated NTM species.

Parameters	M. aurum ^a	M. flavescens ^a	M. genavense/ M. triplex ^b	M. interjectum	M. malmoense	M. muco-genicum	M. scrofulaceum	M. species (slow growing)
Total	1	2	1	3	1	1	4	42
Isolation year(s)	2000	1995, 2002	2009	2007 (2), 2012	2009	2008	2008 (3), 2012	All (except 1999, 2004, 2009)
Mean age	63	NA, 41	34	73	24	81	55	52
Sex (M/F)	0/1	2/0	1/0	3/0	1/0	0/1	3/1	30/7
Origin	MTQ	MTQ, GUF	GLP	MTQ (1),; GUF (2)	GUF	GLP	MTQ (1),; GUF (3)	GLP (9), MTQ (3), GUF (30)
Drug susceptible to^c	RIF 15, EMB, D-CS, CLOFA	OFLO 1,5 (2/2), EMB (2/2), AMIK 4 (2/2), RBT (2/2), SPARFLO (1/1), CLARIT (1/1)	No data	ETH (3/3), RIF 1 (3/3), D-CS (3/3), CLOFA (3/3), RBT (3/3), CLARIT (3/3), AMIK 20 (2/3)	ETH, RIF 1, SM, OFLO 1,5, EMB, D-CS, KANA, AMIK 4, CLOFA, RBT, CIPRO 1,5, SPARFLO 1,5, CLARIT	No data	ETH (4/4), RIF 15 (4/4), D-CS (2/3), AMIK 20 (2/4), CLOFA (4/4), CLARIT (4/4)	—

aRGM, included in total RGM listed in Table 1.
bDistinction between these 2 closely related species was not made.
NA: not available; GLP: Guadeloupe; MTQ: Martinique; GUF: French Guiana.
cDrug-susceptibility patterns were not generalized as mentioned for other species in Tables 1 and 2 (defined as ≤10% of all isolates displaying in vitro resistance [10]); instead, the results are given per strain (numbers in brackets for more than 2 strains). AMIK: amikacin; CIPRO: ciprofloxacin; CLARIT: clarithromycin; CLOFA: clofazimine; D-CS: D-cycloserine; OFLO: ofloxacin; RBT: rifabutin; RIF: rifampin; SPARFLO: sparfloxacin. Note that drug concentration is mentioned for drugs screened at 2 different concentrations.