Rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria cultured from home tap and shower water

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 6017-6019

  Van Ingen, Jakko ^a,b   Blaak, Hetty ^a   De Beer, Jessica ^a   De Roda Husman, Ana Maria ^a   Van Soolingen, Dick ^a  

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

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL SAMPLES; NETHERLANDS; SHOWER WATER;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; TAP PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM;

BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; NETHERLANDS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PEREGRINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SEPTICUM;

EID: 77956565518     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00843-10     Document Type: Article

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