Laboratory Animals > Volume 43, Number 3 > Pp. 300-303

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Mycobacterium gordonae infection in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus tropicalis)

José M Sánchez-Morgado ¹ , Alec Gallagher ¹ and Linda K Johnson ²

¹ Biological Services, MRC–National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK; ² Histopathology, Pathology Department Bldg 57, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK

Corresponding author: José M Sánchez-Morgado, Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), C/Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain. Email: jmsanchez{at}cnic.es

Mycobacterium gordonae is an occasional human pathogen associated with cutaneous infections and nodular granulomatous skin lesions. A case of cutaneous nodular infection caused by M. gordonae in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus tropicalis) is described and confirms this organism to be an opportunistic frog pathogen.

Key Words: Mycobacterium • Xenopus • amphibian • polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

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