Mycobacterium simiae and Related Mycobacteria

Weiszfeiler, J. G.; Karasseva, V.; Karczag, E

doi:10.1093/clinids/3.5.1040

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“…infecting monkeys in 1965. A total of 33 mycobacterial isolates were recovered from 69 imported feral monkeys; 18 were identified as the new species, M. simiae, and 4 as a new related species, Mycobacterium asiaticum (540).…”

Section: Epidemiology Of M Simiae Infectionmentioning

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Epidemiology of Infection by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

Martin

Parker²,

Falkinham

1987

Am Rev Respir Dis

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Section: Epidemiology Of M Simiae Infectionmentioning

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“…simiae is a photochromogenic mycobacterium that grows on standard mycobacterial culture media without additional growth factors (541). It grows optimally at 37ЊC and slowly at 25ЊC, and it fails to grow at 40 and 20ЊC (540). M. simiae isolates grow over the pH range 5.5 to 7.5 (400).…”

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Epidemiology of Infection by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

Martin

Parker²,

Falkinham

1987

Am Rev Respir Dis

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“…' Mycobacterium habana ' was first isolated in Cuba from humans suffering from lung disease and proposed as a new species within _the genus Mycobacterium (Valdivia, 1973 ;Valdivia-Alvarez et al, 1971). However, biochemical and serological analyses (Meissner & Schroder, 1975;Weiszfeiler et al, 1981) led to it being considered synonymous with M . simiae, a species defined in 1965 (Karasseva et al, 1965) for which two serotypes have been described. '…”

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Analysis of lipids reveals differences between ‘Mycobacterium habana’ and Mycobacterium simiae

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Fatty and mycolic acids and the pattern of glycolipids were studied in a collection of 34 strains of 'Mycobacterium habana' and in two strains of Mycobacterium simiae. Major glycolipids of these micro-organisms were assigned to the glycopeptidolipid (GPL) structural type, but both mycobacteria differed in the patterns obtained by TLC. The strains of 'M. habana' were separated into four groups (A-D), taking into account the presence or absence of several polar GPLs: group A contained GPL-I, GPL-ll and GPGIII; group B contained GPGI, GPGII', GPGll and GPGIII; group C contained GPGII', GPL-II and GPGIII; group D did not contain any of these compounds. Fatty acids of both bacteria were similar, and ranged from 14 to 26 carbon atoms, hexadecanoic, octadecenoic and tuberculostearic acids being predominant. Mycolic acids were also similar by TLC and HPLC, and consisted of a=, a'-and ketomycolates.Partial structural analysis by M S carried out in strains 'M. habana' TMC 5135 and M. simiae ATCC 25275l revealed that a-and ketomycolates ranged, in general, from 79 to 87 carbon atoms, and a'-mycolates from 58 to 67 carbon atoms. The a-and ketomycolates belonged to several structural series, and minor variations were found between the two strains examined. The data obtained justified the synonymy between 'M. habana' and M. simiae but indicated, in turn, that the former can be distinguished on the basis of GPL analysis. Most strains of 'M. habana' can be defined by the presence of GPGll and GPGIII, a finding that could be useful in the quality control of potential vaccine strains.

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“…There is a third group, with a short helix 18 (due to a deletion of 12 bp), and members of this group are also classified as slow growers (Tortoli, 2003). In this group, Mycobacterium simiae, a photochromogenic organism from monkeys, was the first species to be identified (Weiszfeiler et al, 1981). Mycobacterium intermedium (Meier et al, 1993) is another photochromogenic species related to M. simiae.…”

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Mycobacterium stomatepiae sp. nov., a slowly growing, non-chromogenic species isolated from fish

Pourahmad

Cervellione

Thompson

et al. 2008

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLO

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Slowly growing, non-chromogenic mycobacteria were isolated from striped barombi mbo cichlids (Stomatepia mariae) maintained at the London Zoo Aquarium, UK. The isolates could be differentiated from other slowly growing, non-pigmented mycobacteria by a combination of phenotypic features including their inability to grow at 37 6C, positive tests for heat-stable catalase, tellurite reduction and arylsulfatase activity, and the absence of urease activity, Tween 80 hydrolysis, nitrate reductase, iron uptake and semiquantitative catalase. The almost full-length 16S rRNA gene sequence, together with partial sequences from the 65 kDa heat-shock protein (hsp65) and the b-subunit of the bacterial RNA polymerase (rpoB) genes and the 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS 1) region were identical for all three novel strains, but distinct from those of all known mycobacterial species. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences placed the novel isolates within the slowly growing mycobacteria group in close proximity to Mycobacterium florentinum. Based on genotypic and phenotypic findings, it is proposed that these isolates represent a novel species of the genus Mycobacterium, for which the name Mycobacterium stomatepiae sp. nov. is proposed with strain T11 T (5DSM 45059 T 5CIP 109275 T 5NCIMB 14252 T ) as the type strain.In the past few years, the occurrence of fish mycobacteriosis has been increasingly reported (Kent et al., 2004;Pate et al., 2005;Sakai et al., 2005;Whipps et al., 2007b). Although three species, Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium chelonae, have been frequently cited as the main causative agents of infections in fish, several other mycobacterial species, including a number of novel species, have also been associated with mycobacteriosis (Levi et al., 2003;Rhodes et al., 2003Rhodes et al., , 2005Whipps et al., 2007a).The majority of slowly growing mycobacteria contain a long helix 18 at position 430-500 (Escherichia coli 16S rRNA gene sequence numbering) in their 16S rRNA gene, which is absent in rapidly growing mycobacteria (Springer et al., 1996a;Tortoli, 2003). There is a third group, with a short helix 18 (due to a deletion of 12 bp), and members of this group are also classified as slow growers (Tortoli, 2003). In this group, Mycobacterium simiae, a photochromogenic organism from monkeys, was the first species to be identified (Weiszfeiler et al., 1981). Mycobacterium intermedium (Meier et al., 1993) is another photochromogenic species related to M. simiae. Scotochromogenic species of the M. simiae-related (MSR) group consist of Mycobacterium interjectum (Springer et al., 1993) The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA, hsp65 and rpoB gene sequences and ITS 1 region of M. stomatepiae sp. nov. T11 T are AM884331, AM902968, AM885873 and AM902938, respectively.Neighbour-joining phylogenetic trees based on hsp65 (Fig. S1) and rpoB ( Fig. S2) gene sequences of M. stomatepiae sp. nov. and selected mycobacterial species, and the oligonucleotides used f...

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Mycobacterium simiae and Related Mycobacteria

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

Epidemiology of Infection by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

Epidemiology of Infection by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

Analysis of lipids reveals differences between ‘Mycobacterium habana’ and Mycobacterium simiae

Mycobacterium stomatepiae sp. nov., a slowly growing, non-chromogenic species isolated from fish

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