Surface spreading motility shown by a group of phylogenetically related, rapidly growing pigmented mycobacteria suggests that motility is a common property of mycobacterial species but is restricted to smooth colonies

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 6894-6902

  Agustí, Gemma ^a   Astola, Oihane ^a   Rodríguez Güell, Elisabeth ^a   Julián, Esther ^a   Luquin, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; MEMBRANE LIPID; POLYESTER; POLYSTYRENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; MORPHOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHUBUENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM GILVUM; MYCOBACTERIUM OBUENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARAFORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BIOFILMS; CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FATTY ACIDS; GLASS; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MYCOBACTERIUM; POLYSTYRENES;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHUBUENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM GILVUM; MYCOBACTERIUM OBUENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARAFORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE;

EID: 53849129198     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00572-08     Document Type: Article

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