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Mycobacterium komossense

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Mycobacterium komossense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Mycobacteriales
Family: Mycobacteriaceae
Genus: Mycobacterium
Species:
M. komossense
Binomial name
Mycobacterium komossense
Kazda and Muller 1979, ATCC 33013

Mycobacterium komossense 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

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Gram-positive, nonmotile, short to moderately long and acid-fast rods.

Colony characteristics

Physiology

Differential characteristics

Pathogenesis

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Type strain

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  • First isolated from intact sphagnum vegetation in the Komosse sphagnum bog in southern Sweden and Atlantic coastal area of Norway.

Strain Ko 2 = ATCC 33013 = CIP 105293 = DSM 44078 = HAMBI 2279 = HAMBI 2280 = JCM 12408.

References

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  • Kazda,J., K. Muller. 1979. Mycobacterium komossense sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 29, 361–365.]
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