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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hong T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC308987 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20031201 12
A rapidly growing mycobacterium was isolated five times from blood cultures from a 6-year-old female patient with relapsed pre-B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia. All five isolates had identical nucleotide sequences for the first 500 bp of the 16S rRNA gene, indicative of a single species. High-performance liquid chromatography analysis of mycolic acids indicated that the species was similar to Mycobacterium smegmatis. Sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene (1,455 bp) for one isolate demonstrated ...[more]