rpoB-Based Identification of Nonpigmented and Late-Pigmenting Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5699-5708

  Adékambi, Toïdi ^a   Colson, Philippe ^a   Drancourt, Michel ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BETA CHAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM HOUSTONENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MAGERITENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PORCINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOB GENE; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM HOUSTONENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MAGERITENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PORCINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0346218268     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5699-5708.2003     Document Type: Article

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