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Mycobacterium alvei

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Kingdom
  
Bacteria

Order
  
Actinomycetales

Family
  
Mycobacteriaceae

Scientific name
  
Mycobacterium alvei

Phylum
  
Actinobacteria

Suborder
  
Corynebacterineae

Genus
  
Mycobacterium

Rank
  
Species

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Mycobacterium alvei 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.

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Description

Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (1-3 µm x 0.5-0.7 µm).

Colony characteristics

  • Colonies are eugonic, rough and nonpigmented.

    • Physiology

  • Colonies occur within 5 days at 30°C (optimum temperature, no growth at 45°C) on Löwenstein-Jensen medium and on Middlebrook 7H10 agar.
  • The type strain is resistant to D-cycloserine, streptomycin, isoniazid, rifampin, and thiacetazone
  • The type strain is susceptible to kanamycin, capreomycin and high levels of isoniazid.

    • Differential characteristics

  • Differentiation from all other mycobacterial species by its unusual mycolate pattern.

    • Pathogenesis

  • Not associated with disease.
  • Biosafety level 1

    • Type strain

    First isolated from water samples, from soil and human sputum samples in Spain. Strain CR-21 = ATCC 51304 = CIP 103464 = DSM 44176 = JCM 12272.

    References

    Mycobacterium alvei Wikipedia
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