Mycobacterium intermedium

Mycobacterium intermedium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Corynebacterineae
Family: Mycobacteriaceae
Genus: Mycobacterium
Species: M. intermedium
Binomial name
Mycobacterium intermedium
Meier et al. 1993, ATCC 51848

Mycobacterium intermedium 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.

Etymology: Latin; intermedium, meaning between, rapidly and slowly growing mycobacteria.

Description

Gram-positive, and nonmotile acid-fast coccobacilli (2.0 µm x 2.6 µm).

Colony characteristics

Physiology

Differential characteristics

Pathogenesis

Type strain

Strain 1669/91 = ATCC 51848 = CCUG 37583 = CIP 104542 = DSM 44049 = JCM 13572

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