Mycobacterium nanjing sp. nov. Isolated from Cutaneous Infection, China.
Yidie Zou, Youming Mei, Wenyue Zhang, Ying Shi, Haiqin Jiang, Yukun Huang, Hongsheng Wang
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
- China
- Phylogeny
- Mycobacterium
- Skin Diseases, Bacterial
- Whole Genome Sequencing
- Genome, Bacterial
- Male
- Mycobacterium Infections