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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2004, p. 7571-7573, Vol. 70, No. 12
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.12.7571-7573.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Diversity of Nontuberculoid Mycobacterium Species in Biofilms of Urban and Semiurban Drinking Water Distribution Systems{dagger}

S. M. September,1 V. S. Brözel,2 and S. N. Venter1*

Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa,1 Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota2

Received 24 May 2004/ Accepted 4 August 2004

ABSTRACT

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous and have been isolated from a variety of environmental sources, including water. Various NTM were isolated from biofilms in drinking water distribution systems in two urban and two semiurban areas in South Africa. Most of the isolates belonged to opportunistic pathogenic species of the NTM group, but none belonged to the Mycobacterium avium complex.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa. Phone: 27 12 420 4100. Fax: 27 12 420 3266. E-mail: snventer{at}postino.up.ac.za.

FOOTNOTES

{dagger} Journal series publication 3434 from the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2004, p. 7571-7573, Vol. 70, No. 12
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.12.7571-7573.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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