Differentiation of phylogenetically related slowly growing mycobacteria based on 16S-23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer sequences

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 139-147

  Roth, Andreas ^a,d   Fischer, Marga ^a   Hamid, Mohamed E ^a,c   Michalke, Sabine ^a   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^b   Mauch, Harald ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^d Lungenklinik Heckeshorn Zehlendorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 23S; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CONSPICUUM; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CONSPICUUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GASTRI; MYCOBACTERIUM GENAVENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MALMOENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SHIMOIDEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SZULGAI; MYCOBACTERIUM TRIPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPI; PROKARYOTA; SIMIAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031974203     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.1.139-147.1998     Document Type: Article

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