Severe mucosal leishmaniasis with torpid and fatal evolution.

Mucosal leishmaniasis is a clinical condition that is difficult to diagnose and treat and usually precedes a cutaneous leishmaniasis condition with a long latency period as observed in our study of a patient who experienced a torpid evolution in 9 months, caused by having had cutaneous leishmaniasis on the neck without therapeutic treatment, although with ulcer closure 18 years earlier, incomplete treatment with antimonials and amphotericin B, with the destruction of the eyeball, a large area of necrosis on the face and nasal bone exposure. Additionally, the patient had chronic anemia (9.4 g/dl), lymphopenia and neutrophilia (lymphocytes 13.1%, neutrophils 84.4%), and co-infections by fungi (yeasts and hyphae) and Gram-negative bacteria (multidrug-resistant Proteus mirabilis and Escherichia coli) leading to sepsis and subsequent death of the patient.

[Mycobacteria identification in solid culture by inverted phase microscopy and ziehl-neelsen stain]. / Identificación de micobacterias en medio sólido mediante microscopía de fase invertida y tinción Ziehl-Neelsen.

With the aim of identifying morphological differences in colonies of different species of mycobacteria by means of inverted phase microscopy, nine species of high-prevalence pathogenic mycobacteria were seeded in 7H11 solid medium and were observed for up to 21 days. Additionally, Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stains were carried out for each one of them. No morphological variations were identified among the species grown on solid medium; however, it was identified that all are able to form cords in solid medium in an early stage of growth, being corroborated by the Ziehl-Neelsen stain in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. so techniques based on detecting M. tuberculosis depending on the identification of the cords should be taken with caution so as not to generate a bad diagnosis, so microbiological characteristics could also be established as a minimum time to detect growth, temperature of growth and bacillary characteristics based on the Ziehl-Neelsen stain for each species studied.

Con el objetivo de identificar diferencias morfológicas en colonias de diferentes especies de micobacterias mediante microscopía de fase invertida, se sembraron en medio sólido 7H11, nueve especies de micobacterias patógenas de alta prevalencia y se observaron hasta por 21 días. Adicionalmente se realizaron coloraciones Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) para cada una de ellas. No se identificó variaciones morfológicas entre las especies cultivadas, sin embargo, se observó que todas fueron capaces de formar cordones en su etapa temprana de crecimiento, siendo corroborado por coloración ZN en Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Asimismo, se determinó ciertas características microbiológicas como tiempo mínimo y la temperatura de crecimiento, y características bacilares basadas en la tinción ZN para cada especie estudiada. Estos hallazgos son importantes para la identificación del agente etiológico y podrían servir de base para estudios posteriores sobre la identificación de las biomoléculas involucradas en la agregación celular de cada micobacteria.

Identificación de micobacterias en medio sólido mediante microscopía de fase invertida y tinción Ziehl-Neelsen / Mycobacteria identification in solid culture by inverted phase microscopy and ziehl-neelsen stain

RESUMEN Con el objetivo de identificar diferencias morfológicas en colonias de diferentes especies de micobacterias mediante microscopía de fase invertida, se sembraron en medio sólido 7H11, nueve especies de micobacterias patógenas de alta prevalencia y se observaron hasta por 21 días. Adicionalmente se realizaron coloraciones Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) para cada una de ellas. No se identificó variaciones morfológicas entre las especies cultivadas, sin embargo, se observó que todas fueron capaces de formar cordones en su etapa temprana de crecimiento, siendo corroborado por coloración ZN en Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Asimismo, se determinó ciertas características microbiológicas como tiempo mínimo y la temperatura de crecimiento, y características bacilares basadas en la tinción ZN para cada especie estudiada. Estos hallazgos son importantes para la identificación del agente etiológico y podrían servir de base para estudios posteriores sobre la identificación de las biomoléculas involucradas en la agregación celular de cada micobacteria.

ABSTRACT With the aim of identifying morphological differences in colonies of different species of mycobacteria by means of inverted phase microscopy, nine species of high-prevalence pathogenic mycobacteria were seeded in 7H11 solid medium and were observed for up to 21 days. Additionally, Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stains were carried out for each one of them. No morphological variations were identified among the species grown on solid medium; however, it was identified that all are able to form cords in solid medium in an early stage of growth, being corroborated by the Ziehl-Neelsen stain in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. so techniques based on detecting M. tuberculosis depending on the identification of the cords should be taken with caution so as not to generate a bad diagnosis, so microbiological characteristics could also be established as a minimum time to detect growth, temperature of growth and bacillary characteristics based on the Ziehl-Neelsen stain for each species studied.