Mycobacterium kubicae

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Mycobacterium kubicae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Actinobacteria Order: Actinomycetales Suborder: Corynebacterineae Family: Mycobacteriaceae Genus: Mycobacterium Species: M. kubicae
Binomial name
Mycobacterium kubicae Floyd et al. 2000, ATCC 700732

Mycobacterium kubicae

Contents 1 Description 2 Pathogenesis 3 Type Strain 4 References

[edit] Description

Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods. Cells are typically rod-shaped, with some coccoid forms.

Colony characteristics

• Smooth and domed, with a yellow scotochromogenic pigment on Middlebrook 7H11 agar, film like on Löwenstein-Jensen media.

Physiology

• Mature growth in 21 days between 33°C and 37°C.
• Isolates are resistant to amikacin and rifampin
• Partially resistant to ciprofloxacin, cycloserine, ethambutol, isoniazid, rifabutin and streptomycin,
• Susceptible to clarithromycin, clofazimine and ethionamide.

Pathogenicity.

Distribution.

[edit] Pathogenesis

• Not known to be associated with disease.
• Biosafety level unknown

[edit] Type Strain

• The type strain was isolated from human sputum.

Strain ATCC 700732 = CDC 941078 = CIP 106428 = DSM 44627 = JCM 13573.

[edit] References

• Floyd et al. 2000. Mycobacterium kubicae sp. nov., a slowly growing, scotochromogenic Mycobacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 50, 1811-1816.