Mycobacterium moriokaense
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetia
Order:	Mycobacteriales
Family:	Mycobacteriaceae
Genus:	Mycobacterium
Species:	M. moriokaense
Binomial name
Mycobacterium moriokaense Tsukamura et al. 1986, ATCC 43059

Mycobacterium moriokaense
Etymology: moriokaense, from Morioka, Japan where the organism was first isolated.

Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (2-6 μm x 0.5 μm).

Colony characteristics

• Dry, rough and nonpigmented (nonphotochromogenic) colonies.

Physiology

• Rapid growth on Löwenstein-Jensen media at 28 °C, 37 °C and 42 °C, but not at 45 °C within 3 days.

• Biosafety level 1

• First isolated from sputum of a patient with tuberculosis and from soil in Morioka, Japan.

Strain NCH E11715 = ATCC 43059 = CCUG 37671 = CIP 105393 = DSM 44221 = JCM 6375 = VKM Ac-1183.

• Tsukamura et al. 1986. Mycobacterium moriokaense sp. nov., a rapidly growing, nonphotochromogenic Mycobacterium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 36, 333–338.

• Type strain of Mycobacterium moriokaense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase