Applied Microbiology: Open Access
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Department of IHU Méditerranée Infection, Université de Montpellier, Marseille, France

Biography

Sophie Baron currently works at the Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée (FR 3479 IMM), Aix-Marseille Université. Sophie does research in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Microbiology. Their current project is 'Colistin resistance' and 'antibiotic resistance' in general.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Description of a Clinical Strain of Mycobacterium cambodiensis sp. nov., a New Member of the Mycobacterium simiae Complex
  Author(s): Fatah Tazerart, Jamal Saad, Muriel Militello, Sophie Alexandra Baron, Michel Drancourt* and Sylvain Godreuil
  
  A bronchoalveolar lavage sample was collected by bronchoscopy from a 25-year-old Cambodian male patient with suspected clinical tuberculosis and was inoculated in Löwenstein-Jensen medium. Colonies of a rapidly growing, non-chromogenic Gram-positive and acid-fast bacterium were investigated. Scanning electron microscopy showed 1.2 ± 0.29 μm-long and 0.58 ± 0.07 μm-large bacilli that could not be identified using routine matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry and phenotypic tests (API® ZYM, API® Coryne and Biolog® Phenotype MicroArray assays). In vitro, the isolate was susceptible to isoniazid, amikacin and trimethoprim- sulfamethoxazole. Whole-genome sequencing yielded a 5,703,981-bp draft genome that displayed 69.3% of GC content with 5,207 coding-protein genes and 56 predicted.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2471-9315.21.7.211

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