Mycobacterium palustre

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| taxon = Mycobacterium palustre

| authority = Torkko et al. 2002,{{cite journal | last1= Torkko | first1= P | last2= Suomalainen | first2= S | last3= Iivanainen | first3= E | last4= Tortoli | first4= E | last5= Suutari | first5= M | last6= Seppänen | first6= J | last7= Paulin | first7= L | last8= Katila | first8= ML | title= Mycobacterium palustre sp. Nov., a potentially pathogenic, slowly growing mycobacterium isolated from clinical and veterinary specimens and from Finnish stream waters | journal= International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | volume= 52 | issue= Pt 5 | pages= 1519–25 | year= 2002 | pmid= 12361253 | doi=10.1099/ijs.0.02089-0}} ATCC BAA-377

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Mycobacterium palustre is a slowly growing mycobacterium first isolated from an environmental source in Finland. It is potentially pathogenic, and has been isolated from human and veterinary clinical specimens.