''Mycobacterium colombiense'' is a species of the phylum
Actinomycetota
The ''Actinomycetota'' (or ''Actinobacteria'') are a phylum of all gram-positive bacteria. They can be terrestrial or aquatic. They are of great economic importance to humans because agriculture and forests depend on their contributions to s ...
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Gram-positive
In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall.
Gram-positive bact ...
bacteria
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometr ...
with high
guanine and cytosine content, one of the dominant phyla of all bacteria), belonging to the genus ''
Mycobacterium''.
Etymology
Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...
: colombiense, pertaining to
Colombia, the
South American
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country where the
strains were first isolated.
Type strain
10B = CECT 3035 = CIP 108962 = DSM 45105
References
*MURCIA,M., et al. 2006. Mycobacterium colombiense sp. nov., a novel member of the Mycobacterium avium complex and description of MAC-X as a new ITS genetic variant. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 2049–2054.
External links
Type strain of ''Mycobacterium colombiense'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
colombiense
Bacteria described in 2006
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