Mycobacterium murale

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Kingdom Bacteria Order Actinomycetales Family Mycobacteriaceae Scientific name Mycobacterium murale		Phylum Actinobacteria Suborder Corynebacterineae Genus Mycobacterium Rank Species
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Mycobacterium murale

Description

Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods or coccobacilli (0.4-0.5 µm x 0.6-1.4 µm).

Colony characteristics Smooth and scotochromogenic colonies of saffron yellow color.

Physiology

Growth on Middlebrook 7H10 agar at 10-37°C, optimum at 30°C within 5 days.

Resistant to isoniazid.

Differential characteristics

Mycobacterium murale and Mycobacterium tokaiense share an identical 5'-16S rDNA sequence

However the ITS sequence of both species differs.

Not known.

First isolated from water-damaged indoor building material, Finland.

Strain MA112/96 = CCUG 39728 = CIP 105980 = DSM 44340 = HAMBI 2320 = JCM 13392.

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