Daghestan State University, Makhachkala, Russia
The bacteriological study of specimens taken from environmental objects, biomaterials from animals and sputa from tuberculosis patients revealed the ubiquity of Mycobacterium, Nocardia and rhodococci obtained from different kinds of environment in the Republic of Daghestan. In the identification 83.6% out of the isolated atypical Mycobacterium cultures were classified with Ranion groups II and IV. Among Nocardia, the most widespread organisms were N.asteroides (62.7%) and among rhodococci, R. erithropolis (61.9%).
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2004, No. 5, P. 103—105