Rapid growing mycobacterium

Rapid growing mycobacterium consists of organism of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group and Mycobacterium chelonae/Mycobacterium abscessus group and these usually cause subcutaneous abscesses or cellulitis following trauma in immunocompetent patients.

List of rapidly growing Mycobacteria

 * Mycobacterium fortuitum
 * Mycobacterium chelonae
 * Mycobacterium smegmatis
 * Mycobacterium abscessus
 * Mycobacterium mucogenicum
 * Mycobacterium peregrinum

Nonchromogenic

 * Mycobacterium abscessus
 * Mycobacterium agri
 * Mycobacterium alvei
 * Mycobacterium arupense
 * Mycobacterium fortuitum

Chromogenic
 Scotochromogenic 

Yellow-Orange

•Mycobacterium aichiense

 Photochromogenic 

•Mycobacterium novocastrense (sp.nova)