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Virulence and drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium celatum.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Nov 2000
Fattorini Lanfranco, Baldassarri Lucilla, Li Yong-Jun, Ammendolia Maria Grazia, Fan Yuming, Recchia Simona, Iona Elisabetta, Orefici Graziella
Abstract excerpt
The virulence and drug susceptibility of a clinical isolate of Mycobacterium celatum which showed smooth transparent (ST) and smooth opaque (SO) colonies were studied. While ST cells multiplied intracellularly and maintained their coccobacillary form in a human macrophage model of infection, SO cells formed long filaments and completely destroyed the phagocytes. In BALB/c mice, the ST variant, but not the SO...
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