Mycobacterium murale
Description Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods or coccobacilli (0.4-0.5 μm x 0.6-1.4 μm).
Colony characteristics Smooth and scotochromogenic colonies of saffron yellow color.
Physiology Growth on Middlebrook 7H10 agar at 10-37 °C, optimum at 30 °C within 5 days. Susceptible to amikacin, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin and ethambutol. Resistant to isoniazid.
Differential characteristics Mycobacterium murale and Mycobacterium tokaiense share an identical 5'-16S rDNA sequence However the ITS sequence of both species differs.
Pathogenesis Not known.
Type strain First isolated from water-damaged indoor building material, Finland. Strain MA112/96 = CCUG 39728 = CIP 105980 = DSM 44340 = HAMBI 2320 = JCM 13392.
References
External links Type strain of Mycobacterium murale at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase