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Mycobacterium elephantis sp. nov., a rapidly growing non-chromogenic Mycobacterium isolated from an elephant.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Sept 2000
Shojaei H, Magee J G, Freeman R, Yates M, Horadagoda N U, Goodfellow M
Abstract excerpt
A strain isolated from a lung abscess in an elephant that died from chronic respiratory disease was found to have properties consistent with its classification in the genus Mycobacterium. An almost complete sequence of the 165 rDNA of the strain was determined following the cloning and sequencing of the amplified gene. The sequence was aligned with those available on mycobacteria and phylogenetic trees inferred...
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