Order Actinomycetales Family Mycobacteriaceae | Phylum Actinobacteria Suborder Corynebacterineae Rank Species | |
Similar Mycobacterium gordonae, Mycobacterium scrofulaceum, Mycobacterium malmoense, Mycobacterium phlei |
Mycobacterium flavescens 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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Etymology: Latin, flavescens = becoming golden yellow.
Description
Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods.
Colony characteristics
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Pathogenesis
Not associated with disease. Biosafety level 2.
Type strain
Strain ATCC 14474 = CCUG 29041 = CIP 104533 = DSM 43991 = JCM 12274 = NCTC 10271 = NRRL B-4038.
References
Mycobacterium flavescens Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA