Talk:Mycobacterium

message: If someone has a minute to look at that article, it needs wikifying and a lot of expanding. Itsmejudith (talk) 13:23, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have since removed the attempt to list all species in this genus, as it has currently reached 195 and genetic analysis is making an exact definition of the complex difficult BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 05:30, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mycobacterium celatum]] 

message: Where does this assumption come from ? I would regard this with great skepticism. XApple (talk) 12:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For future editors, this was a confusing claim when these editors were discussing a decade ago, but I have added an image of the cell envelope to this page from a recent open-source journal article to illustrate the current understanding of why mycobacteria are between Gram-positive and Gram-negative (requiring acid-fast stains over Gram's) BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 05:30, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  neither Gram negative nor positive 

message: The article states that mycobateria have no capsule. I thought it was widely known that they do have a capsule containing a-glucan?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.37.210.210 (talk) 12:15, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right. Mycobacterium has capsule but its observation is difficult with conventional microscopy techniques. See: Daffé M, Etienne G. The capsule of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its implications for pathogenicity. Tuber Lung Dis. 1999;79(3):153-69. . . Quotation: "Although conventional processing of samples for microscopy studies failed to demonstrate this structure around in vitro-grown bacilli, the application of new microscopy techniques to mycobacteria allows the visualization of a thick capsule in specimen from axenic cultures of mycobacteria."--Miguelferig (talk) 20:44, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

text: Significantly expanded explanation of this genus' cell envelope, including a mention of capsules comprised of glucans. Thanks for calling this out! BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 05:30, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mycobacterial capsule]] 

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replies: text: As reflected in edit history, many of these links are to mycobacterium databases that have since shutdown. Since the Internet Archive focuses on the main pages, I removed these sites since the archive in insufficient at capturing the original data and replaced them with links to newer projects BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 20:36, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: Can someone explain this to me 107.77.227.110 (talk) 05:03, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Check the associated Wikipedia article for more information. If you are looking for medical advice, speak with your doctor because WP:MEDICAL emphasizes that this online encyclopedia is not a stand-in for professional advice. Reference https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-017-2892-9 for more information on how this bacterial species causes disease in humans BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 20:36, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mycobacterium fortuitum 

message: I'm just a regular guy but I'm assuming that M. chitae and M. fallax aren't part of the cystic fibrosis group of mycobacteria 211.21.129.76 (talk) 09:41, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree no online sources seem to support this classification, and such misinformation is problematic because the Global Biodiversity Information Facility website references this page BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 20:36, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: As an update, I have removed the attempted list of all species in this genus, as LPSN currently lists 195 valid child taxa. The taxonomic relationships are now reflected in a newly uploaded set of phylogenetic trees. Thanks for calling out the issue! BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 05:30, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  CF (Cystic Fibrosis)?