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case_images: Phylogenetic relationships of SMC-7485 and other Mycobacterium species based on ITS sequences, which were retrieved from GenBank database. This tree was generated by the neighbor-joining method. Mycobacterium vaccae DSM 43292 was used as an outlier. Numbers at branching nodes are percentages of 1,000 bootstrap replications. Only values greater than 50% are shown. In this tree, M. senegalense strains are separated into two subgroups.
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case_images: AY684051]. In addition, ITS sequence of SMC-7485 showed the similarities of more than 90% with those of several M. senegalense strains deposited in GenBank database. Although ITS sequences of some M. senegalense strains such as ATCC 35796 and NCTC 10956 showed low similarities (80.9%) with that of SMC-7485, they were clearly differentiated from M. farcinogenes and other Mycobacterium species (Fig. 1).