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Mycobacterium diernhoferi
Introduction
Mycobacterium diernhoferi
Description
Description
Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (2-6µm x 0.5µm).
Colony characteristics
- White smooth and non-photochromogenic colonies.
Physiology
- Fast growth at 28°C and 37°C within 3 days, no growth at 42°C.
- Resistant to isoniazid, rifampin, Susceptible to ethambutol.
Differential characteristics Belongs to the M. parafortuitum complex. Which unifies rapidly growing, scotochromogenic mycobacteria (M. parafortuitum, M. aurum, M. neoaurum, M. diernhoferi and M. austroafricanum).
Type Strain
Type Strain
First isolated from soil in a cattle field (Germany). Strain 41001 = ATCC 19340 = CIP 105384 = DSM 43524 = HAMBI 2269 = IFO (now NBRC) 14756 = JCM 6371.
References
References
- Tsukamura et al. 1983. Numerical taxonomy of rapidly growing, scotochromogenic mycobacteria of the Mycobacterium parafortuitum complex: Mycobacterium austroafricanum sp. nov. and Mycobacterium diernhoferi sp. nov., nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol.,33, 460-469.
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