First report of a mycolactone-producing Mycobacterium infection in fish agriculture in Belgium.
In the past few years, a mycolactone-producing subgroup of the Mycobacterium marinum complex has been identified and analyzed. These IS2404-positive species cause pathology in frogs and fish. A recently isolated mycobacterial strain from a fish in Belgium was analyzed using a variety of molecular methods and the results were identical to those obtained from a mycolactone-producing M. marinum from Israel.
Stragier
Pieter
P
Department of Microbiology, Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Hermans
Katleen
K
Stinear
Tim
T
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Françoise
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D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000378:metabolism*; D001530:Belgium; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D005399:Fishes; D007557:Israel; D018942:Macrolides; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D019910:Mycobacterium marinum / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism*
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D018942:Macrolides; C117218:mycolactone