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. 2023 Jul;29(7):1490-1492.
doi: 10.3201/eid2907.221864.

Detection of Mycobacterium angelicum in Human Urinary Tract, French Polynesia

Mohamed Lamine Keita, Madjid Morsli, Marc Levy, Grégoire Basse, Cécile Verrier, Michel Drancourt

Detection of Mycobacterium angelicum in Human Urinary Tract, French Polynesia

Mohamed Lamine Keita et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Jul.

Abstract

We definitively characterized Mycobacterium angelicum, an aquatic zoonotic opportunistic pathogen of the M. szulgai complex, using a polyphasic approach that included whole-genome sequencing. The sequence was obtained on the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, from a urine specimen collected from a patient experiencing a urinary tract infection.

Keywords: French Polynesia; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium angelicum; bacteria; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria; whole-genome sequencing; zoonoses.

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Whole-genome sequence–based clusterization of a Mycobacterium angelicum strain from a human urinary tract, French Polynesia. The strain clustered within the M. szulgai complex, based on orthoANI calculations (7).
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