Pathobiological significance of colony morphology in Mycobacterium avium complex.

doi:10.1006/mpat.1996.0046

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Pathobiological significance of colony morphology in Mycobacterium avium complex.

Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Aug 1996

Reddy V M, Luna-Herrera J, Gangadharam P R

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Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) strains are known to exhibit variation in colony morphology. In addition to the smooth transparent (ST), smooth opaque (SO) and rough opaque (RO), which are the most common morphological forms, intermediate (IM) and pin point (PP) forms were also occasionally obs...

Topics

Animals
Bacterial Adhesion
Carbohydrates
Genetic Variation
Humans
Lipids
Liver
Lung
Macrophages
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Mycobacterium avium Complex
Spleen
Superoxides
Tumor Cells, Cultured

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