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SUBMITTER: Kattar MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC87956 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kattar M M MM Cookson B T BT Carlson L D LD Stiglich S K SK Schwartz M A MA Nguyen T T TT Daza R R Wallis C K CK Yarfitz S L SL Coyle M B MB
Journal of clinical microbiology 20010401 4
We have isolated a gram-positive, weakly acid-alcohol-fast, irregular rod-shaped bacterium from cultures of blood from a 5-year-old girl with acute myelogenous leukemia. This isolate was compared with 14 other strains including reference strains of Tsukamurella species by a polyphasic approach based on physiological and biochemical properties, whole-cell short-chain fatty acid and mycolic acid analyses, DNA-DNA hybridization, and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. This isolate represents a new tax ...[more]