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Mycobacterium moriokaense

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Mycobacterium moriokaense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Mycobacteriales
Family: Mycobacteriaceae
Genus: Mycobacterium
Species:
M. moriokaense
Binomial name
Mycobacterium moriokaense
Tsukamura et al. 1986, ATCC 43059

Mycobacterium moriokaense
Etymology: moriokaense, from Morioka, Japan where the organism was first isolated.

Description

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Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (2-6 μm x 0.5 μm).

Colony characteristics

  • Dry, rough and nonpigmented (nonphotochromogenic) colonies.

Physiology

  • Rapid growth on Löwenstein-Jensen media at 28 °C, 37 °C and 42 °C, but not at 45 °C within 3 days.

Pathogenesis

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Type strain

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  • First isolated from sputum of a patient with tuberculosis and from soil in Morioka, Japan.

Strain NCH E11715 = ATCC 43059 = CCUG 37671 = CIP 105393 = DSM 44221 = JCM 6375 = VKM Ac-1183.

References

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  • Tsukamura et al. 1986. Mycobacterium moriokaense sp. nov., a rapidly growing, nonphotochromogenic Mycobacterium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 36, 333–338.
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