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Subspecies identification and significance of 257 clinical strains of Mycobacterium avium.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2014
Tran Quynh T, Han Xiang Y
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Mycobacterium avium is abundant in the environment. It has four subspecies of three types: the human or porcine type, M. avium subsp. hominissuis; the bird type, including M. avium subsp. avium serotype 1 and serotype 2, 3 (also M. avium subsp. silvaticum); and the ruminant type, M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis. We determined the subspecies of 257 M. avium strains isolated from patients at the M.D. Anderson...
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