Mycobacterium moriokaense Etymology: moriokaense, from Morioka, Japan where the organism was first isolated.
Description Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (2-6 μm x 0.5 μm).
Colony characteristics Dry, rough and nonpigmented (nonphotochromogenic) colonies.
Physiology Rapid growth on Löwenstein-Jensen media at 28 °C, 37 °C and 42 °C, but not at 45 °C within 3 days.
Pathogenesis Biosafety level 1
Type strain First isolated from sputum of a patient with tuberculosis and from soil in Morioka, Japan. Strain NCH E11715 = ATCC 43059 = CCUG 37671 = CIP 105393 = DSM 44221 = JCM 6375 = VKM Ac-1183.
References
Tsukamura et al. 1986. Mycobacterium moriokaense sp. nov., a rapidly growing, nonphotochromogenic Mycobacterium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 36, 333–338.
External links Type strain of Mycobacterium moriokaense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase