Taxonomic variation in the Mycobacterium fortuitum third biovariant complex: description of Mycobacterium boenickei sp. nov., Mycobacterium houstonense sp. nov., Mycobacterium neworleansense sp. nov. and Mycobacterium brisbanense sp. nov. and recognition of Mycobacterium porcinum from human clinical isolates, by M. F. Schinsky, R. E. Morey, A. G. Steigerwalt, M. P. Douglas, R. W. Wilson, M. M. Floyd, W. R. Butler, M. Daneshvar, B. A. Brown-Elliott, R. J. Wallace Jr, M. M. McNeil, D. J. Brenner and J. M. Brown
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology vol. 54, part 5, pp. 1653 - 1667
Supplementary Table. Ribotype (RT) groups and DNA relatedness of representative strains used in this study. [PDF] (24 KB)
Supplementary Figure. Signature nucleotides within the hypervariable region A of the 16S rRNA gene for Mycobacterium species using Mycobacterium peregrinum as the reference species. The first nucleotide corresponds to Escherichia coli position 175. Dots indicate positions that were identical to the M. peregrinum sequence. GS, Genomospecies. [PDF] (44 KB)
