Identification of Mycobacterium fortuitum, Mycobacterium abscessus, and Mycobacterium borstelense by Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis of Their Cell Proteins
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- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Vol. 24 (3) , 366-369
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-24-3-366
Abstract
Strains of M. fortuitum, M. abscessus, and M. borstelense showed different polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic patterns of their cell proteins. M. fortuitum strains could easily be distinguished from those of M. abscessus and M. borstelense, and they appear to belong to a single homogeneous group. M. abscessus and M. borstelense gels showed similar patterns, thus tending to confirm recent suggestions that they both belong to one and the same species, the correct name of which is M. chelonei.Keywords
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