Emerging Pathogenic Respiratory Mycoplasma hominis Infections in Lung Transplant Patients: Time to Reassesses it's Role as a Pathogen?
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Article history: Received 28 April 2017 Accepted 2 May 2017 Available online 3 May 2017 lates had identical multi-locus sequence types (MLST). This is particularly significant as constant low level mutation for this organism means thatMLST yields an almost unique fingerprint for each organism and usually is only identical when taken from the same patient (Jironkin et al., 2016). This substantiates their conclusion that the source of the in-
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