Mycobacterium nanjing sp. nov. Isolated from Cutaneous Infection, China
Zou Y, Mei Y, Zhang W, Shi Y, Jiang H, Huang Y, Wang H
Emerging infectious diseases · 2026-03
Abstract
We report a case of a cutaneous infection in an immunocompetent person in China caused by an uncharacterized Mycobacterium strain. The patient isolate was identified as a novel species by whole-genome sequencing. We propose Mycobacterium nanjing sp. nov. as the name for this new species.
MeSH terms
- Humans
- Mycobacterium
- Mycobacterium Infections
- Skin Diseases, Bacterial
- Phylogeny
- Genome, Bacterial
- China
- Male
- Whole Genome Sequencing