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SURCO LUNA, Víctor  e  GAVINCHA QUISPE, Carla Vanessa. Micobacterias. Rev. Act. Clin. Med [online]. 2014, vol.49, pp. 2619-2624. ISSN 2304-3768.

Mycobacteria differ from other bacteria present complex cell wall with very special structural features, depending on the environment where they develop and their growth capacity that can be variable in speed. Most Mycobacterium species have a high infection rate because of its survival character not being sporulated microorganisms; to be these kinds of acid - alcohol resistant due to its complex cell wall as they are capable of generating different pathologies in the same body. Were known mainly two types of mycobacteria such as M. tuberculosis and M. leprae; however during the last decades due to the emergence of patients highly immunosuppressed as patients with AIDS, atypical or environmental mycobacteria were generated with a large number of conditions in these patients, so early detection now involves not only an issue of resolution of treatment but a prevention theme etidades affecting life. Diagnostic methods and sampling of Mycobacteria currently do not become so complex are generally based on microscopic methods

Palavras-chave : Mycobacterium; Cellular wall; M. tuberculosis; M. leprae; M. atopic or environment bacters.