Mycobacterium austroafricanum

Mycobacterium austroafricanum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	"Actinobacteria"
Class:	Actinobacteria
Order:	Mycobacteriales
Family:	Mycobacteriaceae
Genus:	Mycobacterium
Species:	M. austroafricanum
Binomial name
	Mycobacterium austroafricanum; Tsukamura et al. 1983, ATCC 33464

Mycobacterium austroafricanum is a species of the phylum Actinobacteria (Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content, one of the dominant phyla of all bacteria), belonging to the genus Mycobacterium.

Type strain: strain E9789-SA12441 = ATCC 33464 = CCUG 37667 = CIP 105395 = DSM 44191 = HAMBI 2271 = JCM 6369.

References[]

TSUKAMURA (M.), VAN DER MEULEN (H.J.) and GRABOW (W.O.K.): Numerical taxonomy of rapidly growing, scotochromogenic mycobacteria of the Mycobacterium parafortuitum complex: Mycobacterium austroafricanum sp. nov. and Mycobacterium diernhoferi sp. nov., nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1983, 33, 460–469.

External links[]

Type strain of Mycobacterium austroafricanum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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