Mycobacterium kubicae

Mycobacterium kubicae

Description
Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods. Cells are typically rod-shaped, with some coccoid forms.

Colony characteristics
 * Smooth and domed, with a yellow scotochromogenic pigment on Middlebrook 7H11 agar, film like on Löwenstein-Jensen media.

Physiology
 * Mature growth in 21 days between 33°C and 37°C.
 * Isolates are resistant to amikacin and rifampin
 * Partially resistant to ciprofloxacin, cycloserine, ethambutol, isoniazid, rifabutin and streptomycin,
 * Susceptible to clarithromycin, clofazimine and ethionamide.

Pathogenicity.

Distribution.

Pathogenesis

 * Not known to be associated with disease.
 * Biosafety level unknown

Type Strain
Strain ATCC 700732 = CDC 941078 = CIP 106428 = DSM 44627 = JCM 13573.
 * The type strain was isolated from human sputum.