Isolation and identification of ‘Mycobacterium angelicum’ from a patient with type II respiratory failure: suggested reporting guidelines to molecular clinical laboratories

Mycobacterium angelicum sp. nov., a non-chromogenic, slow-growing species isolated from fish and related to Mycobacterium szulgai

“…Several characteristics suggested the strain belonged to a not previously reported species, but an official description was not made, mainly because of the firm convincement that the sound description of a novel species cannot be based on a ‘single’ strain (Christensen et al , 2001). In subsequent years, two additional strains tentatively identified as M. angelicum have been reported (Davies et al , 2012; Durnez et al , 2010).…”