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Isolation and identification of Mycobacterium neoaurum from a patient with urinary infection
1Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università degli studi di Sassari, Italy.
The New Microbiologica
|May 11, 2001
Abstract:
Mycobacterium neoaurum is a novel species of Mycobacteria, until now only isolated from catheters in immunosuppressed patients. This report describes the isolation and identification of M. neoaurum from urine obtained from a hospitalized patient.
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