Identification of new genomospecies in the mycobacterium terrae complex

• Main Authors: Yun Fong Ngeow, Yan Ling Wong, Joon Liang Tan, Kar Wai Hong, Hien Fuh Ng, Bee Lee Ong, Kok Gan Chan
• Format: Indexed Article
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7511/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4382200/pdf/pone.0120789.pdf

Members of the Mycobacterium terrae complex are slow-growing, non-chromogenic acidfast bacilli found in the natural environment and occasionally in clinical material. These genetically closely-related members are difficult to differentiate by conventional phenotypic and molecular tests. In this pape...