Mycolicibacterium alvei
Species of bacterium
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Mycolicibacterium alvei 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 Mycolicibacterium.
| Mycolicibacterium alvei | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetes |
| Order: | Mycobacteriales |
| Family: | Mycobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Mycolicibacterium |
| Species: | M. alvei |
| Binomial name | |
| Mycolicibacterium alvei (Ausina et al. 1992) Gupta et al. 2018[1] | |
| Type strain | |
| CR-21 ATCC 51304 CIP 103464 DSM 44176 JCM 12272 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Description
Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (1–3 μm × 0.5–0.7 μm).
Colony characteristics
- Colonies are eugonic, rough and nonpigmented.
Physiology
- Colonies occur within 5 days at 30 °C (optimum temperature, no growth at 45 °C) on Löwenstein–Jensen medium and on Middlebrook 7H10 agar.
- The type strain is resistant to D-cycloserine, streptomycin, isoniazid, rifampin, and thiacetazone
- The type strain is susceptible to kanamycin, capreomycin and high levels of isoniazid.
Differential characteristics
- Differentiation from all other mycobacterial species by its unusual mycolate pattern.
Pathogenesis
- Not associated with disease.
- Biosafety level 1
Type strain
First isolated from water samples, from soil and human sputum samples in Spain.
