Evolution of <i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> in the human lung: Cumulative mutations and genomic rearrangement of porin genes in patient isolates.

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"This study was supported in part by intramural research programs of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the NIH Clinical Center and by NIAID contract number HHSN272200900009C to the Institute for Genome Sciences and funds from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation under grant number TETTEL13G0 to HT. We thank Dr. M. Jackson, University of Colorado for the Plasmid pCherry3 with a kanamycin drug resistance cassette."