FEATURES OF CULTIVATION OF INDIVIDUAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ORDER ACTINOMYCETALES (LITERATURE REVIEW)
Acid-resistant representatives of the Actinomycetales order in recent years have been increasingly identified as the etiological cause of infectious processes of various localization. The diversity of this group of prokaryotes requires certain knowledge of their metabolic activity and the need for cultivation conditions, the observance of which will significantly increase the frequency of their isolation from clinical material and significantly improve diagnostics. Of particular interest among acid-resistant actinomycetes are non-tuberculous mycobacteria, which more often come to the attention of bacteriologists of anti-tuberculosis laboratories. The review presents data on the possibility of cultivating non-tuberculous mycobacteria and other actinomycetes on agar media, which expands the possibility of their detection when working with the material in laboratories that are not specialized in tuberculosis mycobacteria.