Description

• Dysgonic and nonphotochromogenic, pale yellow colonies
  Colony (biology)
  In biology, a colony reference to several individual organisms of the same species living closely together, usually for mutual benefit, such as stronger defense or the ability to attack bigger prey. Some insects live only in colonies...
  
   on Löwenstein-Jensen agar.

• Slow growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at temperatures between 22°C and 31°C after 2–3 weeks.
• Susceptible to ethambutol
  Ethambutol
  Ethambutol is a bacteriostatic antimycobacterial drug prescribed to treat tuberculosis. It is usually given in combination with other tuberculosis drugs, such as isoniazid, rifampicin and pyrazinamide....
  
  , rifampin, streptomycin
  Streptomycin
  Streptomycin is an antibiotic drug, the first of a class of drugs called aminoglycosides to be discovered, and was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis. It is derived from the actinobacterium Streptomyces griseus. Streptomycin is a bactericidal antibiotic. Streptomycin cannot be given...
  
  , resistant to pyrazinamide
  Pyrazinamide
  Pyrazinamide is a drug used to treat tuberculosis. The drug is largely bacteriostatic, but can be bacteriocidal on actively replicating tuberculosis bacteria.-Abbreviations:...
  
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• Synthesis of α- and keto-mycolates and wax esters.
• no tolerance to 5% NaCl
  Sodium chloride
  Sodium chloride, also known as salt, common salt, table salt or halite, is an inorganic compound with the formula NaCl. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms...
  
  , positive for Tween 80 hydrolysis and for 10-day-arylsulfatase. Negative for production of nicotinic acid, acetamidase, benzamidase, urease
  Urease
  Urease is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon dioxide and ammonia. The reaction occurs as follows:In 1926, James Sumner showed that urease is a protein. Urease is found in bacteria, yeast, and several higher plants. The structure of urease was first solved by P.A...
  
  , isonicotinamidase, nicotinamidase, pyrazinamidase, succinidamidase, nitrate reductase
  Nitrate reductase
  Nitrate reductases are molybdoenzymes that reduce nitrate to nitrite .* Eukaryotic nitrate reductases are part of the sulfite oxidase family of molybdoenzymes....
  
   and tellurite
  Tellurite
  Tellurite is a rare oxide mineral composed of tellurium dioxide .It occurs as prismatic to acicular transparent yellow to white orthorhombic crystals. It occurs in the oxidation zone of mineral deposits in association with native tellurium, emmonsite and other tellurium minerals. Its name comes...
  
   reduction.

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