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Species code:	MYCA9
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Actinobacteria; Actinobacteridae; Actinomycetales; Corynebacterineae; Mycobacteriaceae; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium abscessus (TaxID: 561007) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing, non-tuberculous mycobacteria which is pathogenic for humans. It is commonly associated with contaminated traumatic skin wounds and with post-surgical soft tissue infections, in addition to being one of the mycobacteria most often isolated from cystic fibrosis patients. It is very resistant to common antimicrobial agents, which makes it difficult to treat. It is ubiquitously present in natural waters, decaying vegetation, sewage water, as well as in drinking water tanks and municipal tap water. Nosocomial outbreaks/pseudooutbreaks of M. abscessus have been described in connection with automated endoscope washers and in hospital water supplies. This is the first rapid-growth pathogenic mycobacterium to be sequenced and will give important comparative information (adapted from PubMed 16725007).
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Human pathogen: Yes Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of MYCA9 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4940 (229 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 4711 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CU458896 (circular; 5,067,172 bp) (download entry) • Plasmid pMAB EMBL accession number CU458745 (circular; 23,319 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):	[1] Ripoll F., Pasek S., Schenowitz C., Dossat C., Barbe V., Rottman M., Heym B., Herrmann J.L., Daffe M., Brosch R., Risler J.L., Gaillard J.L. ; "Acquisition of foreign virulence genes by the cystic fibrosis pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus."; Submitted (MAR-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/spip/Mycobacterium-chelonae-and,449.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=15691 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Mabs PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p15691_Myc_absce  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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