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Mycobacterium eburneum sp. nov., a non-chromogenic, fast-growing strain isolated from sputum

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Imen Nouioui, Dr Lorena Carro Garcia, Dr Maria Del Carmen Montero-CalasanzORCiD, Professor Michael Goodfellow, Professor Hans-Peter Klenk

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Abstract

© 2017 IUMS. A polyphasic study was undertaken to establish the taxonomic position of a non-chromogenic, rapidly growing Mycobacterium strain that had been isolated from sputum. The strain, CECT 8775T, has chemotaxonomic and cultural properties consistent with its classification in the genus Mycobacterium and was distinguished from the type strains of closely related mycobacterial species, notably from Mycobacterium paraense DSM 46749T, its nearest phylogenetic neighbour, based on 16S rRNA, hsp65 and rpoB gene sequence data. These organisms were also distinguished by a broad range of chemotaxonomic and phenotypic features and by a digital DNA–DNA relatedness value of 22.8 %. Consequently, the strain is considered to represent a novel species of Mycobacterium for which the name Mycobacterium eburneum sp. nov is proposed; the type strain is X82T (CECT 8775T=DSM 44358T).

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Author(s): Nouioui I, Carro L, Teramoto K, Igual JM, Jando M, Montero-Calasanz MC, Sutcliffe I, Sangal V, Goodfellow M, Klenk H-P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Year: 2017

Volume: 67

Issue: 9

Pages: 3174-3181

Online publication date: 04/09/2017

Acceptance date: 16/04/2017

ISSN (print): 1466-5026

Publisher: Microbiology Society

URL: https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002033

DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002033

PubMed id: 28869002

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