The genus Mycobacterium contains 188 species including several major human pathogens
as well as numerous other environmental species. We report here comprehensive …

Background Phylogenetic studies of bacteria have been based so far either on a single
gene (usually the 16S rRNA) or on concatenated housekeeping genes. For what concerns …

The definition of a genus has wide-ranging implications both in terms of binomial species
names and also evolutionary relationships. In recent years, the definition of the genus …

The genus Mycobacterium is characterized by very limited interspecies genetic variability
and this makes the definition of a robust phylogeny problematic. In this study a twofold …

By phylogenetic analysis, Mycobacterium kansasii is closely related to Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Yet, although both organisms cause pulmonary disease, M. tuberculosis is a …

The aim of this study was to clarify the taxonomic status of named species within the genus
Mycobacterium. The analysis of genomes belonging to 174 taxa (species or subspecies) of …

During previous cooperative numerical taxonomic studies of slowly growing mycobacteria,
the International Working Group on Mycobacterial Taxonomy described a number of strains …

The species within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex (MTBC) have undergone
numerous taxonomic and nomenclatural changes, leaving the true structure of the MTBC in …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae have remained, for many years, the
primary species of the genus Mycobacterium of clinical and microbiological interest. The …

The Mycobacterium fortuitum third biovariant complex (sorbitol-negative and sorbitol-
positive) contains unnamed taxa first characterized in 1991. These organisms can cause …