Mycobacterium interjectum

Mycobacterium interjectum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Corynebacterineae
Family: Mycobacteriaceae
Genus: Mycobacterium
Species: M. interjectum
Binomial name
Mycobacterium interjectum
Springer et al. 1995, ATCC 51457

Mycobacterium interjectum is a 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.

Name

Etymology: Phylogenetic position between (Latin: interjectum) rapidly and slowly growing mycobacteria.

Description

Mycobacterium interjectum is Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (0.6-1.0 µm x 0.7-2.0 µm). Filaments (up to 6.0 µm) possible.

Colony characteristics

Dysgonic, smooth and scotochromogenic colonies (1–2 mm in diameter).

Physiology

Differential characteristics

Pathogenesis

Type strain

Strain 4185/92 = ATCC 51457 = CCUG 37514 = DSM 44064

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