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SUBMITTER: Beye M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5857167 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beye M M Fahsi N N Raoult D D Fournier P-E PE
New microbes and new infections 20171229
In order to evaluate the suitability of 16S rRNA nucleotide sequence similarity for the classification of new <i>Mycobacterium</i> isolates at the species level, we systematically studied the pairwise identity values of this gene for 131 <i>Mycobacterium</i> species with standing in nomenclature. Only one of the studied species, <i>M. poriferae</i> (0.76%), strictly respected the 95% and 98.65% threshold values currently recommended to determine the affiliation of bacterial isolates to an existi ...[more]