Open AccessMycobacterium gordonae infection in a colony of African clawed frogs (Xenopus tropicalis)
Author(s) -
José M. Sánchez-Morgado,
Alec Gallagher,
Linda K. Johnson
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
laboratory animals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1758-1117
pISSN - 0023-6772
DOI - 10.1258/la.2008.008035
Subject(s) - pathogen , biology , xenopus , microbiology and biotechnology , african clawed frog , human pathogen , bacteria , gene , genetics
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.
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