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Fatty and mycolic acids of Mycobacterium malmoense
P Valero-Guillén1, F Martín-Luengo, L Larsson
1Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Spain.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
The fatty acids and mycolic acids of 16 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium malmoense were studied by gas chromatography and thin-layer chromatography. All strains contained 2-methyleicosanoic and 2,4,6-trimethyltetracosanoic acids and alpha-, alpha'-, and keto-mycolic acids. The reported findings suggest that lipid analysis is a very useful approach in the species identification of M. malmoense.