Mycobacterium arosiense

Species of bacterium

Mycobacterium arosiense
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Actinomycetota
Class:
Actinomycetia
Order:
Mycobacteriales
Family:
Mycobacteriaceae
Genus:
Mycobacterium

Mycobacterium arosiense is a newly described species of Mycobacterium. It is a scotochromogen that derives its name from Arosia, the Latin name for the city of Aarhus (Denmark), where the strain was first isolated.[1]

It can be misidentified as Mycobacterium intracellulare by the commercial mycobacterium assay system, GenoType ® (Hein, Nehren, Germany).[2]

It can cause osteomyelitis[1] and lung disease.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Bang, D.; Herlin, T.; Stegger, M.; Andersen, A.; Torkko, P.; Tortoli, E.; Thomsen, V. (Oct 2008). "Mycobacterium arosiense sp. Nov., a slowly growing, scotochromogenic species causing osteomyelitis in an immunocompromised child". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (Pt 10): 2398–2402. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65503-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 18842863.
  2. ^ a b Tortoli, E.; Adriani, B.; Baruzzo, S.; Degl'Innocenti, R.; Galanti, I.; Lauria, S.; Mariottini, A.; Pascarella, M. (Jun 2009). "Pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium arosiense, an easily misidentified pathogenic novel mycobacterium". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 47 (6): 1947–1949. doi:10.1128/JCM.02449-08. ISSN 0095-1137. PMC 2691113. PMID 19386835.

External links

  • Type strain of Mycobacterium arosiense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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Mycobacteria (including Nontuberculous)
Slowly growing
(R1P=photochromogenic;
R2S=scotochromogenic;
R3N=nonchromogenic)
Long helix 18
(TKHGC)
M. tuberculosis group
K/H groups
M. kansasii group
M. haemophilum group
M. gordonae group
M. conspicuum group
Long helix 18
(other)
M. xenopi group
M. celatum group
M. hiberniae group
Short helix 18
M. simiae clade
M. intermedium group
Ungrouped
Rapidly growing/
Runyon IV
M. neoaurum group
F/T groups
M. fortuitum group
M. vaccae group
M. smegmatis group
M. chelonae group
M. elephantis group
Taxon identifiers
Mycobacterium arosiense


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