Mycobacterium murale

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Mycobacterium murale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Actinobacteria Order: Actinomycetales Suborder: Corynebacterineae Family: Mycobacteriaceae Genus: Mycobacterium Species: M. murale
Binomial name
Mycobacterium murale Vuorio et al. 1999, DSM 44340

Mycobacterium murale

Contents 1 Description 2 Pathogenesis 3 Type Strain 4 References

[edit] Description

Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods or coccobacilli (0.4-0.5µm x 0.6-1.4µm).

Colony characteristics Smooth and scotochromogenic colonies of saffron yellow color.

Physiology

• Growth on Middlebrook 7H10 agar at 10-37°C, optimum at 30°C within 5 days.
• Susceptible to amikacin, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin and ethambutol.
• Resistant to isoniazid.

Differential characteristics

• Mycobacterium murale and Mycobacterium tokaiense share an identical 5'-16S rDNA sequence
• However the ITS sequence of both species differs.

[edit] Pathogenesis

• Not known.

[edit] Type Strain

• First isolated from water-damaged indoor building material, Finland.

Strain MA112/96 = CCUG 39728 = CIP 105980 = DSM 44340 = HAMBI 2320 = JCM 13392.

[edit] References

• Vuorio et al. 1999. A new rapidly growing mycobacterial species, Mycobacterium murale sp. nov., isolated from the indoor walls of a children’s day care centre. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1999, 49, 25-35.