Editorial: Mycobacterium abscessus; The Paradox of Low Pathogenicity and High Virulence

Front Microbiol. 2022 Jun 10:13:943694. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.943694. eCollection 2022.

Thomas F Byrd^{1

2}, Edward D Chan^{3

4

5}

¹ School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
³ National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, United States.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, United States.
⁵ Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Aurora, CO, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: Mycobacterium abscessus; biofilm; cystic fibrosis; glycopeptidolipid; porin.

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