Abstract
The main diseases attributed to the Mycobacterium genus are caused by M. tuberculosis, M. leprae and M. ulcerans, bacteria that belong to the slow growth mycobacteria group (SGM). However, nosocomial infections involving rapid growth micobacteria group (RGM) has attracted great interest in recent year. Since 1989, ten postsurgical outbreaks caused by RGM infection in ophthalmologic and co…