"Mycobacterium ulcerans subsp. shinshuense" isolated from a skin ulcer lesion: Identification based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3840-3843

  Nakanaga, Kazue ^a   Ishii, Norihisa ^a   Suzuki, Koichi ^a   Tanigawa, Kazunari ^a   Goto, Masamichi ^b   Okabe, Tsutomu ^c   Imada, Hideaki ^c   Kodama, Akemi ^c   Iwamoto, Tomotada ^d   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^e   Saito, Hajime ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Saijo cho   (Japan)

^d KOBE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Hiroshima Environment and Health Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FOREARM; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ULCER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN ULCER;

MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 36349023333     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01041-07     Document Type: Article

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