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Mycobacterium komossense
Introduction
Mycobacterium komossense
Description
Description
Gram-positive, nonmotile, short to moderately long and acid-fast rods.
Colony characteristics
- Eugonic, smooth, glistening and yellow-beige pigmented colonies. On Middlebrook 7H10 agar 0.5-2mm in diameter with entire margins.
Physiology
- Growth on Löwenstein-Jensen media and Middlebrook 7H10 agar at temperatures between 22°C-37°C in less than 7 days.
- Optimal growth at 31°C, no growth at 45°C.
Differential characteristics
- Uniqueness of species supported by antigenic analysis (immunodiffusion) and specific lipid patterns.
- A numerical taxonomy comparison showed close relationship to Mycobacterium aichiense.
Type Strain
Type Strain
- First isolated from intact sphagnum vegetation in the Komosse sphagnum bog in southern Sweden and Atlantic coastal area of Norway.
Strain Ko 2 = ATCC 33013 = CIP 105293 = DSM 44078 = HAMBI 2279 = HAMBI 2280 = JCM 12408.
References
References
- Kazda,J., K. Muller. 1979. Mycobacterium komossense sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 29, 361-365.]
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