TABLE 2.
Examination of environmental samples from the home and the work place
| Locality | Place | Biological material collected | No. of samples
|
Identification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Examined | Positive | ||||
| Work place | Cattle house | Drinking water sediment | 6 | 5 | M. gordonae |
| Floor scrapings | 12 | 0 | |||
| Feed stuff | Silage | 2 | 0 | ||
| Courtyard | Invertebrates (fliesa) | 4 | 0 | ||
| Office | Drinking water sediment | 4 | 1 | M. gordonae | |
| Total (%) | 28 (100) | 6 (21.4) | |||
| Home | Bathroom | Water and shower biofilm | 9 | 1 | M. gordonae |
| 2 | M. fortuitum | ||||
| House corridor | Garden soil | 8 | 1 | M. avium complex (serotype 2)b | |
| Nursery | 3 | 1 | Mycobacterium sp.c | ||
| Living room | 3 | 1 | Mycobacterium sp. | ||
| Whole house | Dust from vacuum cleaner 1 month old | 30 | 1 | M. avium complex (serotype 9)d | |
| 1 | |||||
| Courtyard | Moss from the garden | 3 | 0 | Mycobacterium sp. | |
| Scraping under the eaves | 1 | 1 | Mycobacterium sp. | ||
| Earthworms | 1 | 0 | |||
| Barn | Floor dust | 17 | 1 | ||
| Poultry house | Hen's nest dust | 1 | 0 | Mycobacterium sp. | |
| Garden | Earthworms | 1 | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 77 (100) | 10 (13.0) | |||
| Total (%) | 105 (100) | 16 (15.2) | |||
a
One sample with two imagoes of Muscidae and one sample with 126 imagoes of stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans).
b
dnaJ+ IS901+ IS1311+ IS1245+.
c
Slowly growing nonpigmented dnaJ+ IS901− IS1311− IS1245− isolates.
d
dnaJ+ IS901− IS1311+ IS1245+.