Slowly growing Mycobacteria
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Mycobacteria that form colonies clearly visible to the naked eye in more than 7 days on subculture are termed slow growers.
They can cause disease in humans.
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They can cause disease in humans.
Rough
- Mycobacterium africanumMycobacterium africanumMycobacterium africanum is a species of Mycobacterium that is most commonly found in West African countries. The symptoms of infection resemble those of M. tuberculosis.It is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.-Epidemiology:M...
- Mycobacterium bovisMycobacterium bovisMycobacterium bovis is a slow-growing , aerobic bacterium and the causative agent of tuberculosis in cattle...
- Mycobacterium capraeMycobacterium capraeMycobacterium capraeType strain: strain spc-1 = gM-1 = ATCC BAA-824 = CIP 105776.Basonym: ¤ Mycobacterium tuberculosis subsp. caprae Aranaz et al. 1999.Other synonym: ¤ Mycobacterium bovis subsp. caprae Niemann et al. 2002....
- Mycobacterium lacusMycobacterium lacusMycobacterium lacus-Description:Large, dispersed acid-fast bacilli with prominent beadingColony characteristics*Colonies on Löwenstein-Jensen medium were nonchromogenic, small, with a dry appearance....
- Mycobacterium lepraemuriumMycobacterium lepraemuriumMycobacterium lepraemurium is a causative agent of feline leprosy. It causes granulomatous lesions, characteristic of the Mycobacterium genus.-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile and strongly acid-fast rods...
- Mycobacterium microtiMycobacterium microtiMycobacterium microti*Member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex *Also known as the 'Vole bacillus'*Etymology: microtus is a genus that includes the vole.-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods....
- Mycobacterium pinnipediiMycobacterium pinnipediiMycobacterium pinnipedii is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex which primarily infects seals. It is a slowly growing Mycobacterium. The species is named after the Pinnipeds, the organisms from which M. pinnipedii was first isolated....
- Mycobacterium shottsiiMycobacterium shottsiiMycobacterium shottsii is a slowly growing, non-pigmented mycobacteria isolated from striped bass during an epizootic of mycobacteriosis in the Chesapeake Bay. Growth characteristics, acid-fastness and results of 16S rRNA gene sequencing were consistent with those of the genus Mycobacterium...
- Mycobacterium tuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogenic bacterial species in the genus Mycobacterium and the causative agent of most cases of tuberculosis . First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, M...
Smooth
- Mycobacterium branderiMycobacterium branderiMycobacterium branderi is a slowly growing, nonchromogenic Mycobacterium first isolated from patients in Finland. Etymology: of Brander, referring to Eljas Brander, the former head of the Tuberculosis Laboratory of the National Public Health Institute, Finland, who collected the...
- Mycobacterium heidelbergenseMycobacterium heidelbergenseMycobacterium heidelbergense is a Gram-positive, nonmotile, acid-fast, coccobacilli.-Description:Dimensions : 0.5-0.8 µm x 2.0-3.0 µmColony characteristics...
- Mycobacterium intracellulareMycobacterium intracellulareMycobacterium intracellulare is a species of Mycobacterium.-Description:"Gram-positive", nonmotile and acid-fast short to long rods.Colony characteristics*Usually smooth, rarely rough and nonpigmented colonies...
- Mycobacterium malmoenseMycobacterium malmoenseMycobacterium malmoense is a bacterium. Etymology: malmoense, from the city of Malmö, Sweden where it was first isolated.-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile, acid-fast and coccoid to short rods.*Environmental reservoir: soil and water....
Small and Transparent
- Mycobacterium avium aviumMycobacterium avium aviumMycobacterium avium subsp. aviumType strain: strain ATCC 25291 = CCUG 20992 = CIP 104244 = DSM 44156 = NCTC 13034.The subspecies name Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium Chester 1901 is automatically created by the valid publication of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and the valid...
- Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
- Mycobacterium avium silvaticumMycobacterium avium silvaticumMycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticumType strain: strain 6409 = ATCC 49884 = CCUG 47446 = CIP 103317 = DSM 44175.Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum Thorel et al. 1990 was previously known as Mycobacterium avium strain wood pigeon....
- Mycobacterium genavenseMycobacterium genavense-Description:A slow-growing subspecies of Mycobacterium.Nonmotile, acid-fast coccobacilli . No formation of spores, capsules or aerial hyphae.Colony characteristics...
- Mycobacterium montefiorenseMycobacterium montefiorenseMycobacterium montefiorense has been demonstrated to be an etiologic agent of a granulomatous skin disease of moray eels. Sequence analysis, of the 16S rRNA gene reveals M. montefiorense is most closely related to Mycobacterium triplex, an opportunistic pathogen of humans.M...
- Mycobacterium ulceransMycobacterium ulceransMycobacterium ulcerans is a slow-growing mycobacterium that classically infects the skin and subcutaneous tissues, giving rise to indolent nonulcerated and ulcerated lesions. After tuberculosis and leprosy, Buruli ulcer is the third most common mycobacteriosis of humans. M...
Photochromogenic
- Mycobacterium intermediumMycobacterium intermediumMycobacterium intermediumEtymology: Latin; intermedium, meaning between, rapidly and slowly-growing mycobacteria.-Description:Gram-positive, and nonmotile acid-fast coccobacilli .Colony characteristics...
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- Mycobacterium asiaticumMycobacterium asiaticumMycobacterium asiaticum is a slowly growing photochromogenic mycobacterium first isolated from monkeys in 1965. M. asiaticum can, but rarely, causes human pulmonary disease.-Description:Microscopy...
- Mycobacterium marinumMycobacterium marinumMycobacterium marinum is a free-living bacterium, which causes opportunistic infections in humans.- History :Although Aronson isolated this mycobacterium in 1926 from a fish, it was not until 1951 that it was found to be the cause of human disease by Linell and Norden...
Yellow and rough
- Mycobacterium kansasiiMycobacterium kansasiiMycobacterium kansasii is a bacterium in the Mycobacterium family. The genus includes species known to cause serious diseases in mammals, including tuberculosis and leprosy, but this species is generally not dangerous to healthy people....
Yellow
- Mycobacterium conspicuumMycobacterium conspicuumMycobacterium conspicuum-Description:Gram-positive and nonmotile acid-fast coccobacilli. Does not form spores, capsules or aerial hyphae.Colony characteristics*Dysgonic and nonphotochromogenic, pale yellow colonies on Löwenstein-Jensen agar....
- Mycobacterium botnienseMycobacterium botnienseMycobacterium botniense is a slowly growing Mycobacterium, which produces a yellow pigment. It was first isolated from a stream of water. M. botniense is most closely related to Mycobacterium xenopi...
- Mycobacterium farcinogenesMycobacterium farcinogenesMycobacterium farcinogenes is a species of Mycobacterium.Although slow-growing, it is similar to fast-growing species, and is usually classified with them.-Description:...
- Mycobacterium heckeshornenseMycobacterium heckeshornenseMycobacterium heckeshornense-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods. Cells are typically rod-shaped, with some coccoid forms.Colony characteristicsSmooth, yellow scotochromogenic colonies appear after 4 weeks of culture....
- Mycobacterium interjectumMycobacterium interjectumMycobacterium interjectum is a bacterium of genus Mycobacterium.-Description:Mycobacterium interjectum is Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods...
- Mycobacterium kubicaeMycobacterium kubicaeMycobacterium kubicae-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods. Cells are typically rod-shaped, with some coccoid forms.Colony characteristics...
- Mycobacterium lentiflavumMycobacterium lentiflavumMycobacterium lentiflavumEtymology: Lentus from Latin for slow, flavus, Latin for yellow.-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast coccobacilli.Colony characteristics...
- Mycobacterium nebraskenseMycobacterium nebraskenseMycobacterium nebraskense is a slowly growing yellow pigmented mycobacterium that was first isolated from human sputum in Nebraska, USA....
- Mycobacterium nebraskenseMycobacterium nebraskenseMycobacterium nebraskense is a slowly growing yellow pigmented mycobacterium that was first isolated from human sputum in Nebraska, USA....
- Mycobacterium palustreMycobacterium palustreMycobacterium palustre is a slowly growing mycobacterium first isolated from an environmental source in Finland. It is potentially pathogenic, and has been isolated from human and veterinary clinical specimens.-Type strain:...
- Mycobacterium tusciaeMycobacterium tusciaeMycobacterium tusciae is a slow-growing, scotochromogenic mycobacterium first isolated from a lymph node of an immunocompromised child and subsequently from tap water and from a respiratory specimen of a patient with chronic fibrosis....
Yellow-Orange
- Mycobacterium cookiiMycobacterium cookiiMycobacterium cookii-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile and polymorphic acid-fast rods . Forms clumps, but not cords or cross bands...
- Mycobacterium flavescensMycobacterium flavescensMycobacterium flavescensEtymology: Latin, flavescens = becoming golden yellow.-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods.Colony characteristics*Soft, yellow-orange scotochromogenic, butyrous colonies.Physiology...
- Mycobacterium gordonaeMycobacterium gordonaeMycobacterium gordonae is a species of Mycobacterium named for Ruth E. Gordon.-Description:Gram-positive, nonmotile and moderate to long acid-fast rods....