Mycobacterium aichiense
Mycobacterium aichiense is a yellow-orange scotochromogenic, rapidly growing mycobacterium first isolated from soil and human sputum in Japan. It has not been formally associated with disease in humans.Description
Microscopy
Colony characteristics
Physiology
- Grows at 25-37 °C, not at 45 °C, in 3–4 days or less
- Acid phosphatase and arylsulfatase is positive.
- Negative for nitrate reduction, isonicotinamidase, and citrate utilisation.
- Does not grow in the presence of hydroxylamine HCl and does not degrade PAS.
Pathogenesis
- Not associated with disease.
- First isolated in Japan from soil and human sputum.
- Strain 49005 = ATCC 27280 = CIP 106808 = DSM 44147 = JCM 6376 = LMG 19259 = NCTC 10820.
