Abstract
There are seven papers describing infections due to Mycobacterium gordonae in man, and 10 cases caused by this organism are reported in these papers. There are also two other papers reporting that this organism caused bovine thelitis. In all these papers, however, the evidence for identifying the causative organism as M. gordonae or the evi-dence for diagnosing the cases as having real infection due to this organism are not suffi-cient. Investigators should also consider the fact that one case of infection due to M. thermoresistibile has been reported, as M. gordonae infection. Therefore, investigators who want to describe M. gordonae infection should make a sufficent differentiation of their organism from not only M. scrofulaceum but also M. sxulgai, M, xenopi and M. thermoresis-tibile. An identification table is shown in this review for this purpose.
