Mycobacterium interjectum Springer et al., 1995
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Actinomycetota
- class
- Actinomycetia
- order
- Mycobacteriales
- family
- Mycobacteriaceae
- genus
- Mycobacterium
- species
- Mycobacterium interjectum
Abstract
Mycobacterium interjectum is a species of the phylum Actinomycetota (Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content, one of the dominant phyla of all bacteria), belonging to the genus Mycobacterium.
Description
Mycobacterium interjectum is Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (0.6-1.0 µm x 0.7-2.0 µm). Filaments (up to 6.0 µm) possible.
Colony characteristics Dysgonic, smooth and scotochromogenic colonies (1–2 mm in diameter).
Physiology
Slow growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at temperatures between 31°C and 37 °C within 3–4 weeks. Susceptible to rifampicin. Resistant to isoniazid and ethambutol.
Differential characteristics
Most closely related to M. simiae. Phylogenetic position between rapidly and slowly growing mycobacteria.
Colony characteristics Dysgonic, smooth and scotochromogenic colonies (1–2 mm in diameter).
Physiology
Slow growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at temperatures between 31°C and 37 °C within 3–4 weeks. Susceptible to rifampicin. Resistant to isoniazid and ethambutol.
Differential characteristics
Most closely related to M. simiae. Phylogenetic position between rapidly and slowly growing mycobacteria.
Name
Etymology: Phylogenetic position between () rapidly and slowly growing mycobacteria.
Pathogenesis
Chronic lymphadenitis Biosafety level 2
Type strain
First isolated from a lymph node of a child with chronic lymphadenitis in Germany.
Strain 4185/92 = ATCC 51457 = CCUG 37514 = DSM 44064
Strain 4185/92 = ATCC 51457 = CCUG 37514 = DSM 44064