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''Mycobacterium liflandii'' has been isolated from ''Xenopus tropicalis'' and ''Xenopus laevis'' in a laboratory in the US and causes a Mycobacterium ulcerans-like disease in anurans. The taxonomic name has not been approved yet. The strain of ''M. liflandii'' that has been isolated from anuran sources at the University of California, Berkeley, has been designated KT1. KT1 is characterized and differentiated from its closest relatives, ''Mycobacterium ulcerans'' and ''Mycobacterium marinum'', by the following molecular and physical traits. == Genomic results == Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) assay KT1 has a three base-pair difference from ''M. ulcerans'' and ''M. marinum'' in its Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) that results in a lack of a ''Fok''1 restriction enzyme site that is present in ''M. ulcerans'' and ''M. marinum''. Amplification of ITS〔 followed by ''Fok''1 digestion results in an RFLP with a major product of 213 base-pairs for both ''M. ulcerans'' and ''M. marinum'', and a product band of 266 base-pairs for ''M. liflandii''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mycobacterium liflandii」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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