Mycobacterium ulcerans and other Mycolactone-producing mycobacteria should be considered a single species

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Pidot, Sacha J ^a,b   Asiedu, Kingsley ^c   Käser, Michael ^d,e   Fyfe, Janet A M ^f   Stinear, Timothy P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; MYCOLACTONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURULI ULCER; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LIFLANDII; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PSEUDOSHOTTSII; MYCOBACTERIUM SHINSHUENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77957915730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000663     Document Type: Article

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