Mycobacterium genavense

Mycobacterium genavense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Corynebacterineae
Family: Mycobacteriaceae
Genus: Mycobacterium
Species: M. genavense
Binomial name
Mycobacterium genavense
Böttger et al. 1993, ATCC 51234

Mycobacterium genavense is a slow-growing species of the phylum actinobacteria (Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content, one of the dominant phyla of all bacteria), belonging to the genus mycobacterium.

Description

Nonmotile, acid-fast coccobacilli (1.0 µm x 2.0 µm). No formation of spores, capsules or aerial hyphae.

Colony characteristics

Physiology

Differential characteristics

Pathogenesis

Type strain

Strain 2289 = ATCC 51234

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