High-level Relatedness among Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. massiliense Strains from Widely Separated Outbreaks

Three recently sequenced strains isolated from patients during an outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. massiliense infections at a cystic fibrosis center in the United States were compared with 6 strains from an outbreak at a cystic fibrosis center in the United Kingdom and worldwide strains....

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Published in:	Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 364 - 371
Main Authors:	Tettelin, Hervé, Davidson, Rebecca M., Agrawal, Sonia, Aitken, Moira L., Shallom, Shamira, Hasan, Nabeeh A., Strong, Michael, Nogueira de Moura, Vinicius Calado, De Groote, Mary Ann, Duarte, Rafael S., Hine, Erin, Parankush, Sushma, Su, Qi, Daugherty, Sean C., Fraser, Claire M., Brown-Elliott, Barbara A., Wallace, Richard J., Holland, Steven M., Sampaio, Elizabeth P., Olivier, Kenneth N., Jackson, Mary, Zelazny, Adrian M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.03.2014 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects:	bacteria Brazil Comparative analysis Cystic fibrosis Cystic Fibrosis - complications Disease Outbreaks Genes Genome, Bacterial Health aspects Humans Infection Multilocus Sequence Typing Mycobacterium - classification Mycobacterium - genetics Mycobacterium - isolation & purification Mycobacterium abscessus Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. massiliense Mycobacterium Infections - complications Mycobacterium Infections - diagnosis Mycobacterium Infections - epidemiology Mycobacterium Infections - microbiology Phylogeny Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide relatedness tuberculosis and other mycobacteria United Kingdom United States Brazil United Kingdom Maryland relatedness bacteria geographically distant outbreaks United States cystic fibrosis tuberculosis and other mycobacteria United Kingdom outbreaks strains Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. massiliense Mycobacterium abscessus
ISSN:	1080-6040, 1080-6059, 1080-6059
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