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In 1965, Karassova et al. undertook a bacteriological survey of a colony of Macacus rhesus in which disease was prevalent. In 33 of 69 monkeys, they found atypical mycobacteria; 42 strains originated from lymph nodes and 8 from viscera. Of these strains, 9 were originally classified as photochromogenic, but their enzymes were quite distinct from the other known Group I organisms, M. kansasii and M. marinum, and the colonies also differed in that they were small and dysgonic. For the new organism, they proposed speciation as M. simiae.185
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Chapman, J.S. (1977). Mycobacterium simiae. In: The Atypical Mycobacteria and Human Mycobacteriosis. Topics in Infectious Disease. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2310-5_7
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