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Dissection of phylogenetic relationships among 19 rapidly growing Mycobacterium species by 16S rRNA, hsp65, sodA, recA and rpoB gene sequencing
1 Nov 2004
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The current classification of non-pigmented and late-pigmenting rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) capable of producing disease in humans and animals consists primarily of three groups, the Mycobacterium fortuitum group, the Mycobacterium chelonae-abscessus group and the Mycobacterium smegmatis group. Since 1995, eight emerging species have been tentatively assigned to these groups on the basis of their...
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