Mycobacterium intracellulare

Mycobacterium intracellulare
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Corynebacterineae
Family: Mycobacteriaceae
Genus: Mycobacterium
Species: M. intracellulare
Binomial name
Mycobacterium intracellulare
Runyon 1965,[1] ATCC 13950

Mycobacterium intracellulare 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.

Description

"Gram-positive", nonmotile and acid-fast short to long rods.

Colony characteristics

Physiology

Differential characteristics

Pathogenesis

Type strain

Strain ATCC 13950 = CCUG 28005 = CIP 104243 = DSM 43223 = JCM 6384 = NCTC 13025.

References

  1. Runyon, E. 1965. Pathogenic mycobacteria. Advances in Tuberculosis Research, 14, 235-287.



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