Nearly twenty years ago a symposium convened at Dallas, Texas, to conยญ sider the place of atypical mycobacteria among agents of human disease. An edited and condensed version of that symposium was subsequently published and since that time has constituted the only bound source of inforยญ mation covering broad aspects of mycobacterial disease. In the years since a vast amount of information has accumulated in periodical literature, some of which is not readily accessible. The time seems suitable for a comprehensive collection of this scattered material into a single book. The aim has not been to produce an exhaustive account of mycobacteria and mycobacterioses, but rather to concentrate on salient points and particularly on those most generally useful to a diverse group of interests: mycobacteriology, pathology, epidemiology, and, of course, clinical fields. In Appendix A there appear in summary form manifestations of mycoยญ bacteria as they have occurred among clinical specialities, such as orthoยญ pedic surgery, dermatology, and urology. These summaries are designed to serve as guides to more probable infections and to lead to more extensive reading with respect to the specific organism encountered. Appendix C presents, also in summary form, drugs, regimens, duration of treatment, and toxicities to permit ready reference to less familiar antiยญ microbial agents. These are suggestive only, useful when the general nature of the organism is known but not the specific susceptibility of the individual strain
CONTENT
I. General Characteristics -- 1. Early History of the Atypical Mycobacteria -- 2. Bacteriology -- 3. Epidemiology -- 4. Pathology and Pathogenesis -- II. The Photochromogenic Mycobacteria -- 5. Mycobacterium kansasii (Hauduroy) -- 6. Mycobacterium marinum (balnei) -- 7. Mycobacterium simiae -- III. The Scotochromogenic Mycobacteria -- 8. Mycobacterium scrofulaceum -- 9. Mycobacterium szulgai -- IV. The Nonphotochromogenic Mycobacteria -- 10. The Avium-Battey Complex -- 11. Mycobacterium xenopi -- V. The Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria -- 12. Mycobacterium fortuitum (with M. chelonei, M. borstelense, and M. abscessus) -- 13. Mycobacterium ulcerans -- VI. Appendix -- Appendix A. The Mycobacteria in Clinical Specialties -- Appendix B. Alternate Classifications of Atypical Mycobacteria -- Appendix C. Drugs: Dosages, Toxicities, and Combinations -- References
