Mycobacterium tusciae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Actinomycetia |
Order: | Mycobacteriales |
Family: | Mycobacteriaceae |
Genus: | Mycobacterium |
Species: | M. tusciae
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Binomial name | |
Mycobacterium tusciae Tortoli et al. 1999, DSM 44338
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Mycobacterium tusciae is a slow-growing, scotochromogenic mycobacterium first isolated from a lymph node of an immunocompromised child and subsequently from tap water and from a respiratory specimen of a patient with chronic fibrosis. Etymology: tusciae referring to the Italian region of Tuscany, where the organisms were first isolated.
Microscopy
Colony characteristics
Physiology
streptomycin.
Pathophysiology
Differential characteristics
Mycobacterium tusciae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Actinomycetia |
Order: | Mycobacteriales |
Family: | Mycobacteriaceae |
Genus: | Mycobacterium |
Species: | M. tusciae
|
Binomial name | |
Mycobacterium tusciae Tortoli et al. 1999, DSM 44338
|
Mycobacterium tusciae is a slow-growing, scotochromogenic mycobacterium first isolated from a lymph node of an immunocompromised child and subsequently from tap water and from a respiratory specimen of a patient with chronic fibrosis. Etymology: tusciae referring to the Italian region of Tuscany, where the organisms were first isolated.
Microscopy
Colony characteristics
Physiology
streptomycin.
Pathophysiology
Differential characteristics