Mycolicibacterium alvei

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| taxon = Mycolicibacterium alvei

| authority = (Ausina et al. 1992) Gupta et al. 2018{{Cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=Radhey S.|last2=Lo|first2=Brian|last3=Son|first3=Jeen|date=2018-02-13|title=Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomic Studies Robustly Support Division of the Genus Mycobacterium into an Emended Genus Mycobacterium and Four Novel Genera|journal=Frontiers in Microbiology|volume=9|pages=67|doi=10.3389/fmicb.2018.00067|issn=1664-302X|pmc=5819568|pmid=29497402|doi-access=free}}

| type_strain = CR-21
ATCC 51304
CIP 103464
DSM 44176
JCM 12272

| synonyms= * Mycobacterium alvei Ausina et al. 1992{{cite journal | vauthors = Ausina V, Luquin M, Garcia Barcelo M, Laneelle MA, Levy-Frebault V, Belda F, ((Prats G.))| year = 1992 | title = Mycobacterium alvei sp. nov. | journal = Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. | volume = 42 | pages = 529–535 | doi = 10.1099/00207713-42-4-529 | pmid = 1390105| doi-access = free }}

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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.

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

Differential characteristics

  • Differentiation from all other mycobacterial species by its unusual mycolate pattern.

Pathogenesis

Type strain

First isolated from water samples, from soil and human sputum samples in Spain.

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