Table 3.

Rapid growing (RGM) and slow growing mycobacteria (SGM) isolated from the environment in Uganda during September 2008 to January 2009.

Category	Mycobacterial species	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Total
RGM	M. fortuitum-peregrinum complex	1	1	1	2	7	12
	M. parafortuitum					1	1
	M. vanbaaleni			1			1
	M. chubuense					1	1
Total RGM		1	1	2	2	9	15
SGM	M. avium complex		2	1	5	6	14
	M. gordonae	1	4				5
	M. terrae				1		1
	M. arupense			1			1
	M. nonchromogenicum			5			5
	M. hiberniae					1	1
	M. engbaekii					2	2
	M. kubicae				2		2
	M. senuense			1			1
	M. simiae	1					1
Total SGM		2	6	8	8	9	33
Grand total		3	7	10	10	18	48

Twenty percent of the samples were sampled each month.