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Yun Fong Ngeow1, Yan Ling Wong, Naline Lokanathan
1Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Journal of Bacteriology
|August 14, 2012
Abstract:
We report the draft genome sequence of a clinical isolate, strain M115, identified as Mycobacterium massiliense, a member of the newly created taxon of Mycobacterium abscessus subspecies bolletii comb. nov.
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