Mycobacterium gadium

Mycobacterium gadium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Actinobacteria Order: Actinomycetales Suborder: Corynebacterineae Family: Mycobacteriaceae Genus: Mycobacterium Species: M. gadium
Binomial name
Mycobacterium gadium Casal and Calero 1974, ATCC 27726

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Mycobacterium gadium

Description

Short gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods.

Colony characteristics

• Yellow-orange, scotochromogenic colonies, but the pigmentation deepens with exposure to light. Older cultures are more dry and rough.

Physiology

• Rapid growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at 28°C and 37°C, but not at 45°C.

Pathogenesis

• Pathogenicity in humans is not known. Production of a local regressing infection but no death in mice.
• Biosafety level 1

Type Strain

First isolated from known tuberculous patient from Cadiz, Spain. Strain ATCC 27726 = CCUG 37515 = CIP 105388 = DSM 44077 = HAMBI 2274 = JCM 12688 = NCTC 10942.

References

• Casal,M., and J. Calero. 1974. Mycobacterium gadium sp. nov. A new species of rapid-growing scotochromogenic mycobacteria. Tubercle, 55, 299-308.]

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