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A Slow Ramble in the Acid-Fast Lane

The Coming of Age of Mycobacterial Taxonomy

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Abstract

This chapter does not present a comprehensive description of the currently recognized species in the genus Mycobacterium, nor does it include tables of features, phenetic dendrograms or phylogenetic matrices. It is rather a history of the development of a modern mycobacterial taxonomy written to illustrate the mutual influences upon one another of an increasingly urgent practical need for a consistent taxonomy of this genus and the gradual emergence of sophisticated tools for taxonomic analysis. This, then, is an essentially anecdotal history of the evolution of mycobacterial taxonomy from the time around the late 1940’s when Ruth Gordon was introducing polythetic principles to the study of the rapid growers while the taxonomic interest in slow growers was largely expressed in the search for virulence tests to distinguish among “ varieties” of tubercle bacilli, and extending to the present, when nucleic acid sequences and probes are making their contributions to the polyphasic systematic mosaic of this important genus.

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Wayne, L.G. (2000). A Slow Ramble in the Acid-Fast Lane. In: Priest, F.G., Goodfellow, M. (eds) Applied Microbial Systematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4020-1_14

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