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Stacy Pfaller1, Vasily Tokarev2, Collin Kessler2
1Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA pfaller.stacy@epa.gov.
Genome Announcements
|February 25, 2017
Abstract:
We report here the draft genome sequence of the type strain Mycobacterium chimaera Fl-0169, a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). M. chimaera Fl-0169T was isolated from a patient in Italy and is highly similar to strains of M. chimaera isolated in Ireland, although Fl-0169T possesses unique virulence genes.
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