A rapid-growing, nonphotochromogenic species that is potentially pathogenic, producing lesions of lung, bone, or soft tissue following trauma. It has been found in soil and in injection sites of humans, cattle, and cold-blooded animals. (Dorland, 28th ed)

A species of aerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is acid fast, nonmotile, urease negative and catalase, nitrate reductase, and esculin positive. M. fortuitum is found in natural and processed water sources, sewage and dirt, and can cause various clinical syndromes, including local disease after injury or surgical trauma, and disseminated infection in immunocompromised patients.

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Mycobacterium fortuitum.

Mycobacterium fortuitum is a nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), a grouping that encompasses all mycobacteria outside of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. M fortuitum is classified in the Runyon group IV, rapidly growing mycobacteria.

Mycobacterium fortuitum is a bacteria that can cause infections of many areas of the body including the skin, lymph nodes, and joints. It belongs to a group of bacteria, known as nontuberculous mycobacterium, as it is different from the Mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis. It can be found in natural and processed water, sewage, and...