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Mycobacterium chitae : a New Species
Author(s) -
Tsukamura Michio
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
japanese journal of microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1348-0421
pISSN - 0021-5139
DOI - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1967.tb00319.x
Subject(s) - mycobacterium , holotype , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , botany , genetics , genus
A new species of Mycobacterium was described. Four strains of rapidly growing and non‐pathogenic mycobacteria were isolated from soil by chicken passage, and were found to form one cluster by numerical classification based on similarity value. They were named Mycobacterium chitae (sp. nov.) and are deposited in the American Type Culture Collection (holotype; ATCC 19627).