Identification of Mycobacterium phlei TMC 1523 and Mycobacterium smegmatis SN40 as Members of Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium fortuitum, Respectively: Selective Inhibition by Trimethoprim
- 30 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Vol. 28 (4) , 602-604
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-28-4-602
Abstract
On the basis of a study of the effect of trimethoprim on the growth of 131 rapidly growing mycobacteria identified at the species level, it was found that 2 of the stains were possibly misidentified. This suspicion was confirmed by checking the salient phenotypic characters of the strains. Strain TMC 1523 is not a strain of M. phlei but of M. smegmatis and that strain SN40, previously identified as a member of M. smegmatis, is a strain of M. fortuitum.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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