“…Almost all diseases caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria in humans are due to M. fortuitum, M. chelonae , and M. abscessus [4] . They can affect respiratory tract, skin and soft tissue, causing diseases that include pulmonary infections [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , and extra-pulmonary infections [6] , [9] , [10] , [11] , including traumatic and surgical wound infections [5] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , skin and soft tissue infections [2] , [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , implant-associated [29] , [30] , and catheter-associated infections [4] , [31] . NTM have even been isolated from hospital cockroaches [32] .…”