Entry
Org code
mab
Name
Mycobacteroides abscessus ATCC 19977 (Mycobacterium abscessus ATCC 19977)
Category
Reference genome; Type strain
Annotation
yesShow organism
Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Mycobacteriaceae; Mycobacteroides; Mycobacteroides abscessus
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
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Data source
Keywords
Human pathogen
Disease
H01458 Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection
H01462 Rapidly growing mycobacteria infection
Comment
Rapidly growing mycobacterium (RGM).
Causes a pseudotuberculous lung disease to which patients with cystic fibrosis (CF).
Originally isolated from a human knee infection with subcutaneous abscess-like lesions in 1953.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
5067172
Plasmid
pMAB23; Circular
Sequence
Length
23319
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 5090491
Number of protein genes: 4942
Number of RNA genes: 50
Created
2008
Reference
Authors
Ripoll F, Pasek S, Schenowitz C, Dossat C, Barbe V, Rottman M, Macheras E, Heym B, Herrmann JL, Daffe M, et al.
Title
Non mycobacterial virulence genes in the genome of the emerging pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus.
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