Two novel species of rapidly growing mycobacteria: Mycobacterium lehmannii sp. nov. and Mycobacterium neumannii sp. nov

• Published in: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology Vol. 67; no. 12; pp. 4948 - 4955
• Main Authors: Nouioui, Imen, Sangal, Vartul, Carro, Lorena, Teramoto, Kanae, Jando, Marlen, Montero-Calasanz, Maria del Carmen, Igual, José Mariano, Sutcliffe, Iain, Goodfellow, Michael, Klenk, Hans-Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.12.2017
• Subjects: Bacterial Typing Techniques; Base Composition; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; Fatty Acids - chemistry; Genes, Bacterial; Multilocus Sequence Typing; Mycobacterium - classification; Mycobacterium - isolation & purification; Mycolic Acids - chemistry; Nucleic Acid Hybridization; Phylogeny; Pigmentation; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Actinobacteria; draft-genome sequencing; polyphasic taxonomy
• ISSN: 1466-5026; 1466-5034; 1466-5034
• DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002350

Two rapidly growing mycobacteria with identical 16S rRNA gene sequences were the subject of a polyphasic taxonomic study. The strains formed a well-supported subclade in the mycobacterial 16S rRNA gene tree and were most closely associated with the type strain of Mycobacterium novocastrense. Single...