''Mycobacterium doricum'' is a species of the phylum

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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 bacte ...

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with high guanine and cytosine content, one of the dominant phyla of all bacteria), belonging to the genus ''

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''Mycobacterium''.Tortoli et al. 2001. Mycobacterium doricum sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 51, 2007-2012.

Type strain

Strain FI-13295 = CCUG 46352 = CIP 106867 = DSM 44339 = JCM 12405.

References

External links

Type strain of ''Mycobacterium doricum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli doricum Bacteria described in 1992 {{Mycobacterium-stub