| Mycobacterium lentiflavum | |
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| Fibrothorax caused by infection with M lentiflavum. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetia |
| Order: | Mycobacteriales |
| Family: | Mycobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Mycobacterium |
| Species: | M. lentiflavum |
| Binomial name | |
| Mycobacterium lentiflavum Springer et al. 1996, ATCC 51985 | |
Mycobacterium lentiflavum
Etymology: Lentus from Latin for slow, flavus, Latin for yellow.
Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast coccobacilli.
Colony characteristics
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Strain 2186/92 = ATCC 51985 = CCUG 42422 = CCUG 42559 = CIP 105465 = DSM 44418 = JCM 13390.
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