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Abstract

Previous investigations demonstrated three taxonomic groups among 22 clinical isolates of . These studies were expanded to 71 clinical isolates, of which 35 (49%) (group 1) were identical to five ATCC reference strains including the type strain ATCC 19420. Twenty-eight isolates (39%) were group 2, and eight isolates (11%) were group 3. Isolates of groups 2 and 3 were most often associated with post-traumatic or post-surgical wound infections including osteomyelitis, were susceptible to sulfamethoxazole, amikacin, imipenem and the tetracyclines, variably resistan to clarithromycin, and susceptible (group 1), intermediately resistant (group 2) or resistant (group 3) to tobramycin. The three groups were similar by routine biochemical and growth characteristics, but had different mycolic acid dimethoxy-4-coumarinylmethyl ester elution patterns by HPLC and different PCR-restriction enzyme patterns of a 439 bp fragment of the gene. Group 3 isolates differed from group 1 by 18 bp by 16S rRNA sequencing and exhibited < 25% homology by DNA-DNA hybridization, being most closely related to . The 16S rRNA of group 1 and group 2 isolates differed by only 3 bp, but by DNA-DNA hybridization they exhibited only 40% homology. The following names are proposed: sp. nov. for group 2 isolates (type strain ATCC 700504 = M069), sp. nov. for group 3 isolates (type strain ATCC 700010 = M0739) and for group 1 isolates.

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