Kingdom Bacteria Order Actinomycetales Family Mycobacteriaceae Scientific name Mycobacterium bolletii | Phylum Actinobacteria Suborder Corynebacterineae Genus Mycobacterium Rank Species | |
Similar Mycobacterium massiliense, Mycobacterium abscessus, Mycobacterium chelonae, Mycobacterium mageritense, Mycobacterium cosmeticum | ||
Mycobacterium bolletii is a bacterial species of the phylum Actinobacteria and the genus Mycobacterium. It was named in honor of Claude Bollet, a famous clinical microbiologist and taxonomist.
The type strain of M. bollettii is strain BD = CCUG 50184 = CIP 108541.
It has been proposed to reclassify M. bollettii as Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii.
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