Microbiology

Same meat, different gravy: ignore the new names of mycobacteria

E. Tortoli, B. Brown-Elliott, J. Chalmers, D. Cirillo, C. Daley, S. Emler, RA Floto, M. Garcia, W. Hoefsloot, W-J Koh, C. Lange, M. Loebinger, F. Maurer, K. Morimoto, S. Niemann, E. Richter, C. Turenne, R. Vasireddy, S. Vasireddy, D. Wagner, R. Wallace Jr., N. Wengenack, and J. van Ingen. European Respiratory Journal, 2019 Vol 54 Issue 1 1900795. Published 11 July 2019. (Click here to access the article.)

Citation: "... We are confident that microbiologists and clinicians will clearly support the possibility, offered by the Code, to wilfully ignore renaming of clinically important organisms such as nontuberculous mycobacteria.”