- Mycobacterium immunogenum
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Mycobacterium immunogenum Scientific classification Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Actinobacteria Order: Actinomycetales Suborder: Corynebacterineae Family: Mycobacteriaceae Genus: Mycobacterium Species: M. immunogenum Binomial name Mycobacterium immunogenum
Wilson et al. 2001,[1] ATCC 700505
These non-tuberculous mycobacteria are sometimes found in fouling water-based cutting fluids, often causing hypersensitivity pneumonitis to the machinists in the affected grinding plants.[2]Type strain
Strain BH29 = MC 779 = ATCC 700505 = CCUG 47286 = CIP 106684
References
- ^ Wilson, RW; Steingrube, VA; Böttger, EC; Springer, B; Brown-Elliott, BA; Vincent, V; Jost Jr, KC; Zhang, Y et al. (2001). "Mycobacterium immunogenum sp. Nov., a novel species related to Mycobacterium abscessus and associated with clinical disease, pseudo-outbreaks and contaminated metalworking fluids: an international cooperative study on mycobacterial taxonomy". International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 51 (Pt 5): 1751–64. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-5-1751. PMID 11594606.
- ^ Wallace, R. J.; Zhang, Y.; Wilson, R. W.; Mann, L.; Rossmoore, H. (2002). "Presence of a Single Genotype of the Newly Described Species Mycobacterium immunogenum in Industrial Metalworking Fluids Associated with Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68 (11): 5580–4. doi:10.1128/AEM.68.11.5580-5584.2002. PMC 129929. PMID 12406752. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=129929.
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