Mycobacterium asiaticum

Scientific classification
| Kingdom:  | Bacteria

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Phylum:  | Actinobacteria

Order:  | Actinomycetales

Suborder:  | Corynebacterineae

Family:  | Mycobacteriaceae

Genus:  | Mycobacterium

Species:  | M. asiaticum

Binomial name
Mycobacterium asiaticum
Weiszfeiler et al. 1971, ATCC 25276

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Mycobacterium asiaticum is a slowly growing photochromogenic mycobacterium first isolated from monkeys in 1965. M. asiaticum can, but rarely, causes human pulmonary disease.

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Pathogenesis
* 3 Type Strain
* 4 References

## Description

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Microscopy

* Gram-positive, nonmotile, acid-fast, coccoid rods.

Colony characteristics

* Dysgonic and yellow photochromogenic (pigment not produced in the dark) colonies.

Physiology

* Slow growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at 37°C after 15-21 days.

Differential characteristics

* Unique 16S rRNA sequence.
* Biochemically M. asiaticum (photochromogenic) and Mycobacterium gordonae (scotochromogenic) can only by the mode of pigmentation.

## Pathogenesis

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* Rarely causes human pulmonary disease.

## Type Strain

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* First isolated from monkeys in 1965.
* Strain ATCC 25276 = CCUG 29115 = CIP 106809 = DSM 44297 = JCM 6409.

## References

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SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420. [WEISZFEILER (J.), KARASSEVA (G.V.) and KARCZAG (E.): A new Mycobacterium species: Mycobacterium asiaticum n. sp. Acta Microbiologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1971, 18, 247-252.]

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