Mycobacterium ulcerans and Other Mycolactone-Producing Mycobacteria Should Be Considered a Single Species
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1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2 Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, 3 World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 5 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 6 Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Australia
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