Mycobacterium alvei

Description

• Colonies are eugonic, rough and nonpigmented.

• Colonies occur within 5 days at 30 °C on Löwenstein-Jensen medium and on Middlebrook 7H10 agar.
• The type strain is resistant to D-cycloserine, streptomycin, isoniazid, rifampin, and thiacetazone
• The type strain is susceptible to kanamycin, capreomycin and high levels of isoniazid.

• Differentiation from all other mycobacterial species by its unusual mycolate pattern.

  Pathogenesis

• Not associated with disease.
• Biosafety level 1

  Type strain