Mycobacterium fortuitum
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Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly growing, nontuberculous mycobacterial species that can cause opportunistic skin, soft tissue, and device-related infections in humans.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mycobacterium fortuitum canonical | 3 |
| Mycobacterium fortuitum complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11466499 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mycobacterium fortuitum Context triple: [Mycobacterium, includesSpecies, Mycobacterium fortuitum]
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A.
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium kansasii is a slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly causes pulmonary infections resembling tuberculosis, particularly in immunocompromised individuals.
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B.
Mycobacterium marinum
Mycobacterium marinum is a waterborne, slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly infects fish and can cause skin and soft tissue infections in humans, especially after exposure to aquariums or natural bodies of water.
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C.
Mycobacterium abscessus
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing, opportunistic nontuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly causes difficult-to-treat lung, skin, and soft tissue infections, particularly in individuals with underlying lung disease or weakened immune systems.
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D.
Rhodococcus
Rhodococcus is a genus of Gram-positive, often soil-dwelling bacteria known for their ability to degrade a wide range of organic compounds, including environmental pollutants.
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E.
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Mycobacterium ulcerans is a slow-growing environmental mycobacterium that causes Buruli ulcer, a chronic necrotizing skin and soft tissue infection in humans.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mycobacterium fortuitum Target entity description: Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly growing, nontuberculous mycobacterial species that can cause opportunistic skin, soft tissue, and device-related infections in humans.
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A.
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium kansasii is a slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly causes pulmonary infections resembling tuberculosis, particularly in immunocompromised individuals.
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B.
Mycobacterium marinum
Mycobacterium marinum is a waterborne, slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly infects fish and can cause skin and soft tissue infections in humans, especially after exposure to aquariums or natural bodies of water.
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C.
Mycobacterium abscessus
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing, opportunistic nontuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly causes difficult-to-treat lung, skin, and soft tissue infections, particularly in individuals with underlying lung disease or weakened immune systems.
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D.
Rhodococcus
Rhodococcus is a genus of Gram-positive, often soil-dwelling bacteria known for their ability to degrade a wide range of organic compounds, including environmental pollutants.
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E.
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Mycobacterium ulcerans is a slow-growing environmental mycobacterium that causes Buruli ulcer, a chronic necrotizing skin and soft tissue infection in humans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacterial species
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nontuberculous mycobacterium ⓘ rapidly growing mycobacterium ⓘ |
| acidFastStain | acid-fast ⓘ |
| antibioticResistance | intrinsic resistance to many standard antituberculous drugs ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup |
Mycobacterium fortuitum complex
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linked to:
Mycobacterium fortuitum
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| biosafetyLevel | BSL-2 ⓘ |
| canCause |
catheter-related infection
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disseminated infection in immunocompromised hosts ⓘ post-traumatic wound infection ⓘ postinjection abscess ⓘ prosthetic device infection ⓘ pulmonary infection ⓘ skin infection ⓘ soft tissue infection ⓘ surgical site infection ⓘ |
| cellWallComponent | mycolic acids ⓘ |
| cellWallProperty | lipid-rich cell wall ⓘ |
| diseaseCategory | nontuberculous mycobacterial infection ⓘ |
| domain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| environmentalHabitat |
biofilms
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hospital water systems ⓘ natural water ⓘ soil ⓘ tap water ⓘ |
| family | Mycobacteriaceae ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | Da Costa Cruz ⓘ |
| firstDescribedIn | 1938 ⓘ |
| genus | Mycobacterium ⓘ |
| gramStain | Gram-positive ⓘ |
| growthOnLJMedium | grows within 7 days ⓘ |
| growthRate | rapidly growing ⓘ |
| host |
human
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other mammals ⓘ |
| motility | nonmotile ⓘ |
| oftenSusceptibleTo |
amikacin
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cefoxitin ⓘ fluoroquinolones ⓘ imipenem ⓘ macrolides ⓘ |
| order | Corynebacteriales ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | aerobic ⓘ |
| pathogenicity | opportunistic pathogen ⓘ |
| phylum | Actinobacteria ⓘ |
| requires | antimicrobial susceptibility testing for optimal therapy ⓘ |
| shape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| sporeForming | non–spore-forming ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| transmissionRoute |
contaminated medical devices
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contaminated water exposure ⓘ traumatic inoculation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mycobacterium fortuitum Description of subject: Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly growing, nontuberculous mycobacterial species that can cause opportunistic skin, soft tissue, and device-related infections in humans.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mycobacterium fortuitum