Mycobacterium intermedium | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Actinomycetia |
Order: | Mycobacteriales |
Family: | Mycobacteriaceae |
Genus: | Mycobacterium |
Species: | M. intermedium
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Binomial name | |
Mycobacterium intermedium Meier et al. 1993, ATCC 51848
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Mycobacterium intermedium 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 Mycobacterium.
Etymology: Latin; intermedium, meaning between, rapidly and slowly growing mycobacteria.
Gram-positive, and nonmotile acid-fast coccobacilli (2.0 μm x 2.6 μm).
Colony characteristics
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Strain 1669/91 = ATCC 51848 = CCUG 37583 = CIP 104542 = DSM 44049 = JCM 13572