Mycobacterium colombiense genome sequencing. Mycobacterium colombiense CECT 3035 isolate:10B

M. colombiense infections were initially described in HIV patients in Bogotá, Colombia. In this initial study, M. colombiense was confirmed to be the causative agent of pulmonary disease and bacteraemia in this group of people who died of HIV/M. colombiense coinfection. After this study, M. colombiense has been isolated in other scenarios such as lymphadenopathy, subcutaneous infections and disseminated disease in HIV-negative patients in countries like Spain, France, China, Canada and Russia.

哥伦比亚分枝杆菌（M. colombiense）感染最初于哥伦比亚波哥大的HIV患者群体中被首次报道。在该项初始研究中，研究人员证实该菌种为死于HIV与M. colombiense合并感染的患者群体中肺部疾病与菌血症的致病病原体。该研究完成后，M. colombiense还在其他临床场景中被分离获得，例如西班牙、法国、中国、加拿大与俄罗斯等国的HIV阴性患者所罹患的淋巴结病、皮下感染及播散性疾病。