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Volume 8, Number 11, November 2002

Research

Two Cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis subsp. canetti

Jean Miltgen,* Marc Morillon,* Jean-Louis Koeck,† Anne Varnerot,‡  Jean-François Briant,* Gilbert Nguyen,* Denis Verrot,* Daniel Bonnet,* and Véronique Vincent‡
*Hôpital d’instruction des armées Laveran, Marseille, France; †Hôpital d’instruction des armées Val de Grâce, Paris, France; ‡Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
 
 

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Figure 1. Colony morphology on Löwenstein-Jensen slants, showing M. canetti and M. tuberculosis strains. (A) Colonies of M. tuberculosis are rough, thick, wrinkled, have an irregular margin, and are faintly buff-colored. (B) M. canetti exhibits smooth, white and glossy colonies.

 

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