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SUBMITTER: Medjahed H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2648176 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medjahed Halima H Reyrat Jean-Marc JM
Applied and environmental microbiology 20081229 5
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterial species that can be involved in pulmonary and disseminated infections in immunosuppressed or young cystic fibrosis patients. It is an emerging pathogen and has attracted recent attention due to the numerous cases of infection; furthermore, genomic tools have been developed for this species. Nevertheless, the study of this species has until now been limited to spontaneous variants. We report here a comparison of three different mutagenesi ...[more]