 Mycobacterium
"Mycobacterium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A genus of gram-positive, aerobic bacteria. Most species are free-living in soil and water, but the major habitat for some is the diseased tissue of warm-blooded hosts.
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D009161
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.510.024.049.525.500 B03.510.460.400.410.552.552
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mycobacterium" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mycobacterium" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mycobacterium" by people in Profiles.
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van Ingen J, Tortoli E, Selvarangan R, Coyle MB, Crump JA, Morrissey AB, Dekhuijzen PNR, Boeree MJ, van Soolingen D. Mycobacterium sherrisii sp. nov., a slow-growing non-chromogenic species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2011 Jun; 61(Pt 6):1293-1298.
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Selvarangan R, Wu WK, Nguyen TT, Carlson LD, Wallis CK, Stiglich SK, Chen YC, Jost KC, Prentice JL, Wallace RJ, Barrett SL, Cookson BT, Coyle MB. Characterization of a novel group of mycobacteria and proposal of Mycobacterium sherrisii sp. nov. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Jan; 42(1):52-9.
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