Mycobacterium murale
# Mycobacterium murale

Mycobacterium murale

## Description

Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods or coccobacilli (0.4-0.5 µm x 0.6-1.4 µm).

Colony characteristics Smooth and scotochromogenic colonies of saffron yellow color.

Physiology

* Growth on Middlebrook 7H10 agar at 10-37 °C, optimum at 30 °C within 5 days.
* Susceptible to amikacin, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin and ethambutol.
* Resistant to isoniazid.

Differential characteristics

* Mycobacterium murale and Mycobacterium tokaiense share an identical 5'-16S rDNA sequence
* However the ITS sequence of both species differs.

## Pathogenesis

* Not known.

## Type strain

* First isolated from water-damaged indoor building material, Finland.

Strain MA112/96 = CCUG 39728 = CIP 105980 = DSM 44340 = HAMBI 2320 = JCM 13392.

