Publications by authors named "Maria do Rosario Assad Goloni"
Objective: To study the incidence of nontuberculous mycobacteria and the range of species isolated between 1996 and 2005 at a regional branch of the Adolfo Lutz Institute-located in the city of São José do Rio Preto, Brazil-and to show the importance of laboratory testing.
Methods: Mycobacteria were isolated from pulmonary and extrapulmonary specimens and identified through phenotyping and molecular methods (polymerase chain reaction-restriction enzyme analysis).
Results: We isolated 317 nontuberculous mycobacterium strains: Mycobacterium avium complex, 182 (57.