Microbiological features and clinical relevance of new species of the genus Mycobacterium

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 727-752

  Tortoli, Enrico ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM ALGERICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ALSIENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM ARABIENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM AROMATICIVORANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AROSIENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM BACTEREMICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BARRASSIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOUCHEDURHONENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOURGELATII; MYCOBACTERIUM CELERIFLAVUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CROCINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ENGBAEKII; MYCOBACTERIUM EUROPAEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FRAGAE; MYCOBACTERIUM FRANKLINII; MYCOBACTERIUM FUKIENENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM HERAKLIONENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM HIPPOCAMPI; MYCOBACTERIUM INDICUS PRANII; MYCOBACTERIUM INSUBRICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM IRANICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KOREENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM KUMAMOTONENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM KYORINENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPROMATOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LIFLANDII; MYCOBACTERIUM LITORALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LLATZERENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM LONGOBARDUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MANTENII; MYCOBACTERIUM MARSEILLENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MINNESOTENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MONACENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM MUNGI; MYCOBACTERIUM NOVIOMAGENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM ORYGIS; MYCOBACTERIUM PALLENS; MYCOBACTERIUM PARAFFINICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARAGORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARAKOREENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARASEOULENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATERRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM RIYADHENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM RUFUM; MYCOBACTERIUM RUTILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SALMONIPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SEDIMINIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SENUENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SEOULENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SHERRISII; MYCOBACTERIUM SHIGAENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SHINJUKUENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMULANS; MYCOBACTERIUM SINENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM STOMATEPIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SURICATTAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TIMONENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM VULNERIS; MYCOBACTERIUM YONGONENSE; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS;

MYCOBACTERIUM;

HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84907767261     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00035-14     Document Type: Article

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