Abstract
Mycobacterium thermoresistibile is the only chromogenic rapidly growing mycobacterial species reported to cause infections in humans and animals. DNA-DNA hybridization (S1 nuclease method) showed that M. thermoresistibile formed a DNA relatedness group which was only 24 to 30% related to M. phlei. Alkaline phosphatase and beta-galactosidase differentiated M. thermoresistibile from M. phlei. Among the rapidly growing mycobacteria, the mycolic acid pattern of M. thermoresistibile was unique (alpha-, alpha'-, methoxy-and keto-mycolates). Fourteen other species of chromogenic rapidly growing mycobacteria, including M. phlei, produced different mycolic acid patterns which always included dicarboxylic mycolate. Nine species of non-chromogenic rapidly growing mycobacteria produced mycolic acid patterns devoid of ketomycolate.
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