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<i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> . “Pleased to Meet You, Hope You Guess My Name..”
2 Feb 2015
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Mycobacterium abscessus is a formidable and difficult-to-treat mycobacterial pathogen with multiple drug-resistance mechanisms. The most important of these mechanisms is the presence of an inducible erythromycin methylase (erm) gene, because it confers macrolide resistance. It has recently been found that "M. abscessus" can be split into three species or subspecies based on gene sequence analysis other than the...
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