A) Neck and chest of a 53-year-old woman 14 days after fractionated CO2 laser resurfacing, showing<unk> l infection B) Neck of the patient after 5 months of multidrug therapy and pulsed dye laser treatment. Diagnosis of opportunistic<unk>  is made by repeated isolation and identification of the pathogen with compatible clinical and radiological features. Similar to M. tuberculosis, most<unk>  can be detected microscopically and grow on Löwenstein-Jensen medium. Many reference centres now use a nucleic acid-based method such as sequence differences detection in the gene coding for 16S ribosomal RNA to identify the species. Pulmonary<unk>  disease diagnosis requires both identification of the<unk> m in the patient's lung(s), as well as a high-resolution CT scan of the lungs.
Nontuberculous mycobacteria
Aspergillus
Mycoplasma
Corynebacterium
Cryptococcus
Mycobacterium avium complex
Cryptococcus neoformans
Actinobacillus