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Isolation and identification of mycobacteria from soils at an illegal dumping site and landfills in Japan.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2006
Wang Yan, Ogawa Midori, Fukuda Kazumasa, Miyamoto Hiroshi, Taniguchi Hatsumi
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In order to study the diversity and community of genus Mycobacterium in polluted soils, we tried to isolate mycobacteria from 11 soil samples collected from an illegal dumping site and 3 landfills in Japan. Using culture methods with or without Acanthamoeba culbertsoni, a total of 19 isolates of mycobacteria were obtained from 5 soil samples and 3 of them were isolated only by the co-culture method with the...
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