Mycobacterium hodleri

Mycobacterium hodleri

Description
Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (1µm x 1.8-2.3µm).

Colony characteristics
 * Scotochromogenic colonies, production of a saffron yellow pigment on Middlebrook 7H10 agar and a chrome yellow pigment on Trypticase soy agar.

Physiology
 * Fast growth on Middlebrook 7H10 and on Trypticase soy agar at temperatures between 18°C and 28°C.
 * Capable of cooxidizing fluoranthene with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including pyrene and anthracene.

Pathogenesis

 * Pathogenicity is not known.
 * Biosafety level 1

Type Strain
Strain EMI2 = CIP 104909 = DSM 44183 = JCM 12141 = LMG 19253
 * First isolated from a fluoranthene-contaminated site near Jülich, Germany.