Mycobacterium boenickei

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Mycobacterium boenickei

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinobacteria
Order:	Actinomycetales
Suborder:	Corynebacterineae
Family:	Mycobacteriaceae
Genus:	Mycobacterium
Species:	M. boenickei

Binomial name

Mycobacterium boenickei
Schinsky et al. 2004, ATCC 49935

Mycobacterium boenickei Type strain: strain W5998 = ATCC 49935 = DSM 44677.
Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. boenickei, of Bönicke, in honour of the contribution of Rudolf Bönicke, a German mycobacteriologist, who first recognized the heterogeneity within the Mycobacterium fortuitum complex.

1 Pathogenesis
2 Epidemiology
3 Treatment
4 References

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SCHINSKY (M.F.), MOREY (R.E.), STEIGERWALT (A.G.), DOUGLAS (M.P.), WILSON (R.W.), FLOYD (M.M.), BUTLER (W.R.), DANESHVAR (M.I.), BROWN-ELLIOTT (B.A.), WALLACE Jr. (R.J.), McNEIL (M.M.), BRENNER (D.J.) and BROWN (J.M.): Taxonomic variation in the Mycobacterium fortuitum third biovariant complex: description of Mycobacterium boenickei sp. nov., Mycobacterium houstonense sp. nov., Mycobacterium neworleansense sp. nov. and Mycobacterium brisbanense sp. nov. and recognition of Mycobacterium porcinum from human clinical isolates. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, 54, 1653-1667.