TY - JOUR
T1 - Mycobacterium persicum sp. Nov., a novel species closely related to mycobacterium kansasii and mycobacterium gastri
AU - Shahraki, Abdolrazagh Hashemi
AU - Trovato, Alberto
AU - Mirsaeidi, Mehdi
AU - Borroni, Emanuele
AU - Heidarieh, Parvin
AU - Hashemzadeh, Mohamad
AU - Shahbazi, Narges
AU - Cirillo, Daniela M.
AU - Tortoli, Enrico
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IUMS.
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - Four strains isolated in Iran from pulmonary specimens of unrelated patients are proposed as representative of a novel Mycobacterium species. Similarity, at the phenotypic level, with Mycobacterium kansasii is remarkable with the photochromogenic yellow pigmentation of the colonies being the salient feature. They differ, however, genotypically from this species and present unique sequences in 16S rRNA, hsp65 and rpoB genes. The average nucleotide identity and the genome-to-genome distance fully support the status of an independent species. The name proposed for this species is Mycobacterium persicum sp. nov. with AFPC-000227T(=DSM 104278T=CIP 111197T) as the type strain.
AB - Four strains isolated in Iran from pulmonary specimens of unrelated patients are proposed as representative of a novel Mycobacterium species. Similarity, at the phenotypic level, with Mycobacterium kansasii is remarkable with the photochromogenic yellow pigmentation of the colonies being the salient feature. They differ, however, genotypically from this species and present unique sequences in 16S rRNA, hsp65 and rpoB genes. The average nucleotide identity and the genome-to-genome distance fully support the status of an independent species. The name proposed for this species is Mycobacterium persicum sp. nov. with AFPC-000227T(=DSM 104278T=CIP 111197T) as the type strain.
KW - Iran
KW - Mycobacterium kansasii
KW - Mycobacterium persicum
KW - NTM
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U2 - 10.1099/ijsem.0.001862
DO - 10.1099/ijsem.0.001862
M3 - Article
C2 - 28629501
AN - SCOPUS:85021980867
VL - 67
SP - 1758
EP - 1765
JO - International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology
JF - International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology
SN - 1466-5026
IS - 6
M1 - 001862
ER -