Mycobacterium farcinogenes
Mycobacterium farcinogenes is a species of Mycobacterium.
Although slow-growing, it is similar to fast-growing species,[2] and is usually classified with them.
Description
Gram-positive, nonmotile and strongly acid-fast rods. Short or long filaments, bent and branched, in clumps or tangled, lacy network.
Colony characteristics Rough, yellow and convoluted colonies. Firmly adherent to medium and surrounded by an iridescent halo.
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Pathogenesis
Type strain
- First isolated from lesions of farcy in African bovines (Chad).
Strain IEMVT 75 = ATCC 35753 = CCUG 21047 = DSM 43637 = NCTC 10955.
References
- ^ Chamoiseau,G. 1973. M. farcinogenes agent causal du farcin du bœuf en Afrique. Annales de Microbiologie de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris), 124, 215-222.
- ^ Ridell, M (March 1983). "Immunodiffusion analyses of Mycobacterium farcinogenes, Mycobacterium senegalense and some other mycobacteria". J. Gen. Microbiol. 129 (3): 613–9. PMID 6409983.
- ^ Hamid, ME; Roth, A; Landt, O; Kroppenstedt, RM; Goodfellow, M; Mauch, H (February 2002). "Differentiation between Mycobacterium farcinogenes and Mycobacterium senegalense strains based on 16S-23S ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer sequences". J. Clin. Microbiol. 40 (2): 707–11. doi:10.1128/JCM.40.2.707-711.2002. PMC 153362. PMID 11826003. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=153362.
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Slowly growing
(R1P=photochromogenic;
R2S=scotochromogenic;
R3N=nonchromogenic) |
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Long helix 18
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M. tuberculosis group
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K/H groups
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M. kansasii group
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M. haemophilum group
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M. conspicuum group
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Long helix 18
(other)
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M. xenopi group
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M. celatum group
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M. hiberniae group
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Short helix 18
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Ungrouped
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Rapidly growing/
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M. neoaurum group
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F/T groups
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M. fortuitum group
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M. vaccae group
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M. smegmatis group
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M. chelonae group
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M. elephantis group
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