Mycobacterium marinum
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Mycobacterium marinum is a waterborne, slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly infects fish and can cause skin and soft tissue infections in humans, especially after exposure to aquariums or natural bodies of water.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mycobacterium marinum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11466496 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mycobacterium marinum Context triple: [Mycobacterium, includesSpecies, Mycobacterium marinum]
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A.
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Mycobacterium ulcerans is a slow-growing environmental mycobacterium that causes Buruli ulcer, a chronic necrotizing skin and soft tissue infection in humans.
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B.
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium kansasii is a slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly causes pulmonary infections resembling tuberculosis, particularly in immunocompromised individuals.
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C.
Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium is a genus of rod-shaped, often slow-growing bacteria that includes important human pathogens such as the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy.
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D.
Rhodococcus
Rhodococcus is a genus of Gram-positive, often soil-dwelling bacteria known for their ability to degrade a wide range of organic compounds, including environmental pollutants.
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E.
Mycobacterium bovis
Mycobacterium bovis is a slow-growing, pathogenic bacterium that primarily causes tuberculosis in cattle and can infect humans, and it serves as the basis for the widely used BCG vaccine.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mycobacterium marinum Target entity description: Mycobacterium marinum is a waterborne, slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly infects fish and can cause skin and soft tissue infections in humans, especially after exposure to aquariums or natural bodies of water.
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A.
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Mycobacterium ulcerans is a slow-growing environmental mycobacterium that causes Buruli ulcer, a chronic necrotizing skin and soft tissue infection in humans.
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B.
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium kansasii is a slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly causes pulmonary infections resembling tuberculosis, particularly in immunocompromised individuals.
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C.
Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium is a genus of rod-shaped, often slow-growing bacteria that includes important human pathogens such as the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy.
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D.
Rhodococcus
Rhodococcus is a genus of Gram-positive, often soil-dwelling bacteria known for their ability to degrade a wide range of organic compounds, including environmental pollutants.
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E.
Mycobacterium bovis
Mycobacterium bovis is a slow-growing, pathogenic bacterium that primarily causes tuberculosis in cattle and can infect humans, and it serves as the basis for the widely used BCG vaccine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacterial species
ⓘ
non-tuberculous mycobacterium ⓘ |
| acidFastStain |
Auramine–rhodamine positive
ⓘ
Ziehl–Neelsen positive ⓘ |
| antibioticTreatment |
clarithromycin
ⓘ
doxycycline ⓘ ethambutol ⓘ rifampin ⓘ |
| biosafetyLevel | BSL-2 ⓘ |
| cellWallType | mycolic-acid-rich ⓘ |
| diseaseInHumans |
fish tank granuloma
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
skin infection ⓘ soft tissue infection ⓘ swimming pool granuloma ⓘ |
| domain | Bacteria ⓘ |
| exposureRiskFactor |
aquarium handling
ⓘ
fish handling ⓘ swimming in natural bodies of water ⓘ swimming pool exposure ⓘ |
| family | Mycobacteriaceae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstDescribedBy | Aronson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstDescriptionYear | 1926 ⓘ |
| genus | Mycobacterium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gramStain | acid-fast ⓘ |
| growthMedium |
Lowenstein–Jensen medium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middlebrook 7H10 agar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| growthRate | slow-growing ⓘ |
| habitat |
aquarium water
ⓘ
freshwater environments ⓘ marine environments ⓘ |
| host | humans ⓘ |
| modelOrganismFor | tuberculosis pathogenesis ⓘ |
| motility | non-motile ⓘ |
| notableVirulenceFeature | intracellular survival in macrophages GENERATED ⓘ |
| optimalGrowthTemperature | 28–32 °C ⓘ |
| order | Corynebacteriales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oxygenRequirement | aerobic ⓘ |
| pathogenicity | opportunistic pathogen ⓘ |
| phylum | Actinobacteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pigmentation | photochromogenic ⓘ |
| portalOfEntry |
minor trauma to extremities
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skin abrasions ⓘ |
| primaryHost | fish ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Mycobacterium tuberculosis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| RunyonGroup | Group I ⓘ |
| shape | rod-shaped ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| temperaturePreference | psychrotolerant ⓘ |
| transmissionRoute | direct inoculation through skin ⓘ |
| typicalLesionLocationInHumans |
fingers
GENERATED
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forearms GENERATED ⓘ hands GENERATED ⓘ |
| zoonoticAgent | true ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mycobacterium marinum Description of subject: Mycobacterium marinum is a waterborne, slow-growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that commonly infects fish and can cause skin and soft tissue infections in humans, especially after exposure to aquariums or natural bodies of water.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.