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    Mycobacterium ulcerans is a species of bacteria found in various aquatic environments. The bacteria can infect humans and some other animals, causing persistent...
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    caused by skin infection with bacteria called Mycobacterium ulcerans. The mechanism by which M. ulcerans is transmitted from the environment to humans...
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    Mycobacterium bovis is a slow-growing (16- to 20-hour generation time) aerobic bacterium and the causative agent of tuberculosis in cattle (known as bovine...
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    Mycobacterium fortuitum is a nontuberculous species of the phylum Actinomycetota (Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content, one of...
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    Mycobacterium marinum is a slow growing fresh and saltwater mycobacterium (SGM) belonging to the genus Mycobacterium and the phylum Actinobacteria. It...
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    by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans. It is related to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy. Mycobacterium ulcerans produces a toxin,...
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    Mycobacterium smegmatis is an acid-fast bacterial species in the phylum Actinomycetota and the genus Mycobacterium. It is 3.0 to 5.0 µm long with a bacillus...
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  • Mycobacterium avium complex is a group of mycobacteria comprising Mycobacterium intracellulare and Mycobacterium avium that are commonly grouped because...
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    Mycobacterium leprae (also known as the leprosy bacillus or Hansen's bacillus) is one of the two species of bacteria that cause Hansen's disease (leprosy)...
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    resistance.[citation needed] It is also used in the treatment of Mycobacterium ulcerans infections as associated with Buruli ulcer, usually in combination...
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    Mycolactone A/B (M. ulcerans from Africa, Malaysia, Japan Mycolactone C (M. ulcerans from Australia) Mycolactone D (M. ulcerans from China) Mycolactone...
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    Mycobacterium is a genus of over 190 species in the phylum Actinomycetota, assigned its own family, Mycobacteriaceae. This genus includes pathogens known...
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    Mycobacteroides abscessus (formerly Mycobacterium abscessus) is a species of rapidly growing, multidrug-resistant, nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) that...
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    significant genetic similarity between Mycobacterium ulcerans in humans and possums, compared to PCR screening of M. ulcerans from trapped Aedes notoscriptus...
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    mite Sarcoptes scabiei gives koalas mange, while the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans skin ulcers, but even these are uncommon. Internal parasites are...
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  • Mycobacterium lepromatosis is an aerobic, acid-fast bacillus (AFB), and the second known causative agent of Hansen's disease (leprosy). It was discovered...
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  • infections are most commonly due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), Mycobacterium kansasii, and Mycobacterium abscessus (see image). In 1959, botanist...
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  • Mycobacterium africanum is a species of Mycobacterium that is most commonly found in West African countries, where it is estimated to cause up to 40%...
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  • cepacia and other Burkholderia species Burkholderia infection No Mycobacterium ulcerans Buruli ulcer Swollen bump real-time PCR The most widely used antibiotic...
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    and sphagnum moss), Mycobacterium kansasii (from blackberries), Mycobacterium marinum (from cactus spines), and Mycobacterium ulcerans (from spiky tropical...
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    Mycobacterium lentiflavum Etymology: Lentus from Latin for slow, flavus, Latin for yellow. Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast coccobacilli. Colony...
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  • Mycobacterium malmoense is a Gram-positive bacterium from the genus Mycobacterium. From the city of Malmö, Sweden where the strain used for the description...
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  • during the early phase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, as well as other mycobacterial species such as Mycobacterium ulcerans (causing Buruli ulcer...
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    histoplasmosis, sporotrichosis, lobomycosis, lupus vulgaris, Mycobacterium ulcerans, syphilis, cutaneous sarcoidosis, and leprosy should all be considered...
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  • : 340  Mycobacterium fortuitum Mycobacterium chelonae Mycobacterium smegmatis Mycobacterium abscessus Mycobacterium mucogenicum Mycobacterium peregrinum...
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    is a multinucleate giant cell of the Langhans type. The patient had a healing mycobacterial infection of the skin (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection)....
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  • Mycobacterium peregrinum is a species of Mycobacterium. Wallace, R. J.; Brown-Elliott, B. A.; Brown, J.; Steigerwalt, A. G.; Hall, L.; Woods, G.; Cloud...
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  • bacteria, including M. kansasii, M. fortuitum, M. marinum, and Mycobacterium ulcerans. Tuberculous lymphadenitis typically involves a gradual and usually...
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  • Mycobacterium farcinogenes is a species of the phylum Actinomycetota (Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content, one of the dominant...
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    considerable evidence to suggest that this disease is an infection. Mycobacterium ulcerans has recently been isolated from lesions and is unique to tropical...
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