| Title |
Prospecting Environmental Mycobacteria: Combined Molecular Approaches Reveal Unprecedented Diversity
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0068648 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alessandra Pontiroli, Tanya T. Khera, Brian B. Oakley, Sam Mason, Scot E. Dowd, Emma R. Travis, Girum Erenso, Abraham Aseffa, Orin Courtenay, Elizabeth M. H. Wellington |
| Abstract |
Environmental mycobacteria (EM) include species commonly found in various terrestrial and aquatic environments, encompassing animal and human pathogens in addition to saprophytes. Approximately 150 EM species can be separated into fast and slow growers based on sequence and copy number differences of their 16S rRNA genes. Cultivation methods are not appropriate for diversity studies; few studies have investigated EM diversity in soil despite their importance as potential reservoirs of pathogens and their hypothesized role in masking or blocking M. bovis BCG vaccine. |
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| France | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Scientists | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Portugal | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 61 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 16 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 10% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Unknown | 6 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 44% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 6% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 9 | 14% |
| Unknown | 10 | 16% |