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Volume 32, Number 3—March 2026
Research Letter
Mycobacterium nanjing sp. nov. Isolated from Cutaneous Infection, China
Table
Genomic relatedness of novel strain ZZG recovered from patient with cutaneous Mycobacterium infection to closely related Mycobacterium species, China*
| Subject strain | dDDH (95% CI), %† | G+C content difference |
|---|---|---|
| M. vaccae ATCC 15483 | 28.9 (26.5–31.4) | 0.71 |
| M. vanbaalenii PYR-1 | 28.4 (26.1–30.9) | 0.08 |
| M. austroafricanum DSM 44191 | 28.2 (25.9–30.7) | 0.19 |
| M. parafortuitum CCUG 20999 | 24.8 (22.5–27.3) | 0.66 |
| M. gilvum NCTC 10742 | 24.4 (22.1–26.9) | 0.23 |
| M. rufum DSM 45406 | 23.7 (21.4–26.1) | 1.37 |
*dDDH, digital DNA-DNA hybridization. †Calculated using the genome-to-genome distance calculation formula.
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
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