Molecular evidence to support a proposal to reserve the designation Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium for bird-type isolates and 'M. avium subsp. hominissuis' for the human/porcine type of M. avium

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1505-1518

  Mijs, Wouter ^a   de Haas, Petra ^a   Rossau, Rudi ^a   Van Der Laan, Tridia ^a   Rigouts, Leen ^a   Portaels, Françoise ^a   van Soolingen, Dick ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

16S 23S rRNA spacer; IS1245 RFLP; LiPA; Mycobacterium avium complex

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA 16S; GUANINE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; NUCLEOSIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIRD; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBSPECIES; SWINE; TAXON; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIRDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; TERMINOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLUMBA; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. SILVATICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; PROKARYOTA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036737606     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02037-0     Document Type: Article

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