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Mycobacterium heidelbergense
Introduction
Mycobacterium heidelbergense
Description
Description
Gram-positive, and nonmotile acid-fast coccobacilli (0.5-0.8µm x 2.0-3.0µm).
Colony characteristics
- Smooth, dome-like and nonpigmented colonies on Löwenstein-Jensen media at 35°C (0.5 -1 mm in diameter).
Physiology
- Slow growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at 35°C within 3-4 weeks.
- Optimal growth at a temperature range from 33°C to 35°C, but also growth at 30°C and 37°C, neither growth at 25°C nor at 45°C.
- Susceptible to isoniazid, rifampicin and ethambutol.
- Resistant to pyrazinamide and cycloserine.
Differential characteristics
- Differentiation from M. malmoense, (bearing a strong phenotypic resemblance to M. heidelbergense), by its wider range of susceptibility to antituberculous drugs, (including isoniazid), and by its inability to grow on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at 25°C.
- Differentiation of M. triplex from M. heidelbergense by its positive nitrate reduction test and by its characteristic HPLC profile (triple-mycolate pattern).
Pathogenesis
Pathogenesis
- Cervical lymphadenitis in immunocompetent patients.
- Biosafety level not known
Type Strain
Type Strain
- First isolated from a immunocompetent paediatric patient with cervical lymphadenitis with recurrent fistula formation, in Heidelberg, Germany.
Strain 2554/91 = ATCC 51253 = CIP 105424 = DSM 44471.
References
References
- Haas et al. 1997. A new agent of mycobacterial lymphadenitis in children: Mycobacterium heidelbergense sp. nov. J. Clin. Microbiol. 35, 3203-3209.
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