"Mycobacterium aviumsubsp.hominissuis" is an important cause of pulmonary disease. It is acquired from environmental sources, but there is no methodology for large population studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNearly half of US clinical isolates of the emerging pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus were reported to exhibit smeared DNA during PFGE. This DNA degradation (Dnd) phenotype results from DNA phosphorothioation, a sulfur modification found in other bacteria and conferred by dnd genes located on mobile elements. Putative dnd genes are located on a 19.
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