''Mycobacteroides immunogenum'' (formerly ''Mycobacterium immunogenum''
) is a species of bacteria from 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 ...
, belonging to the genus ''
Mycobacteroides''.
These non-
tuberculous mycobacteria are sometimes found in fouling water-based
cutting fluid
Cutting fluid is a type of coolant and lubricant designed specifically for metalworking processes, such as machining and stamping. There are various kinds of cutting fluids, which include oils, oil-water emulsions, pastes, gels, aerosols (mists) ...
s, often causing hypersensitivity
pneumonitis
Pneumonitis describes general inflammation of lung tissue. Possible causative agents include radiation therapy of the chest, exposure to medications used during chemo-therapy, the inhalation of debris (e.g., animal dander), aspiration, herbicide ...
to the machinists in the affected grinding plants.
The complete
genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding g ...
sequence of ''Mycobacteroides immunogenum'' CCUG 47286
T was deposited and published in
DNA Data Bank of Japan
The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) is a biological database that collects DNA sequences. It is located at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in the Shizuoka prefecture of Japan. It is also a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Da ...
,
European Nucleotide Archive
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is a repository providing free and unrestricted access to annotated DNA and RNA sequences. It also stores complementary information such as experimental procedures, details of sequence assembly and other m ...
, and
GenBank
The GenBank sequence database is an open access, annotated collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations. It is produced and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI; a part ...
in 2016 under the accession numbe
CP011530
References
External links
Type strain of ''Mycobacteroides immunogenum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli
immunogenum
Bacteria described in 2001
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