''Mycobacterium moriokaense''

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: moriokaense, from

Morioka is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. On 1 February 2021, the city had an estimated population of 290,700 in 132,719 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is . G ...

, Japan where the organism was first isolated.

Description

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 ...

, nonmotile and

acid-fast Acid-fastness is a physical property of certain bacterial and eukaryotic cells, as well as some sub-cellular structures, specifically their resistance to decolorization by acids during laboratory staining procedures. Once stained as part of a sam ...

rods (2-6 µm x 0.5 µm). Colony characteristics *Dry, rough and nonpigmented (nonphotochromogenic) colonies. Physiology *Rapid growth on Löwenstein-Jensen media at 28 °C, 37 °C and 42 °C, but not at 45 °C within 3 days.

Pathogenesis

* Biosafety level 1

Type strain

*First isolated from sputum of a patient with tuberculosis and from soil in Morioka, Japan. Strain NCH E11715 = ATCC 43059 = CCUG 37671 = CIP 105393 = DSM 44221 = JCM 6375 = VKM Ac-1183.

References

*Tsukamura et al. 1986. Mycobacterium moriokaense sp. nov., a rapidly growing, nonphotochromogenic Mycobacterium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 36, 333–338.

External links

Type strain of ''Mycobacterium moriokaense'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Acid-fast bacilli moriokaense Bacteria described in 1986 {{Mycobacterium-stub