"Pulmonary Mycobacterium chelonae infection is a type of pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection where the causative organism is Mycobacterium chelonae."
"M. chelonae is classified as rapidly growing mycobacterium (RGM), class IV in the Runyon classification."
"M. chelonae are considered uniformly resistant to cefoxitin. Agents such as imipenem are preferred instead."
"M. chelonae is thought to have been first isolated from a turtle by Friedmann in 1903, who referred to it as "turtle tubercle bacillus"."