Mycobacterium gadium Casal & Calero, 1974
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Actinomycetota
- class
- Actinomycetia
- order
- Mycobacteriales
- family
- Mycobacteriaceae
- genus
- Mycobacterium
- species
- Mycobacterium gadium
Abstract
Mycobacterium gadium 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
Short gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods. Colony characteristics
Yellow-orange, scotochromogenic colonies, but the pigmentation deepens with exposure to light. Older cultures are more dry and rough.
Physiology
Rapid growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at 28 °C and 37 °C, but not at 45 °C.
Yellow-orange, scotochromogenic colonies, but the pigmentation deepens with exposure to light. Older cultures are more dry and rough.
Physiology
Rapid growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at 28 °C and 37 °C, but not at 45 °C.
Pathogenesis
Pathogenicity in humans is not known. Production of a local regressing infection but no death in mice. Biosafety level 1
Type strain
First isolated from known tuberculous patient from Cadiz, Spain. Strain ATCC 27726 = CCUG 37515 = CIP 105388 = DSM 44077 = HAMBI 2274 = JCM 12688 = NCTC 10942.