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Case Reports
. 2009 Feb;15(2):302-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid1502.080837.

Mycobacterium bolletii respiratory infections

Toïdi Adékambi  1 , Michel Drancourt
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Case Reports

Mycobacterium bolletii respiratory infections

Toïdi Adékambi et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Feb.

Abstract

Contrary to other species in the Mycobacterium chelonae-abscessus complex, we reidentified M. bolletii strains isolated from 4 respiratory patients and found these strains to be uniformly resistant to clarithromycin. No mutations previously associated with macrolide resistance in bacteria were detected in either the 23S rDNA or the genes encoding riboproteins L4 and L22.

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Phylogenetic tree of different sequevars of Mycobacterium abscessus-chelonnae group isolates determined by rpoB-723 bp sequencing. Isolate identified as M. bolletii is in boldface. Scale bar represents 1% sequence divergence.
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