Mycobacterium avium (CIP 109826, 68257)

Name: Mycobacterium avium (CIP 109826, 68257)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 137012

Type strain

Strain Designation 68257

Culture col. no. CIP 109826 68257

NCBI tax ID(s) 1764

Special Collections CIP

History 2008, M. Drancourt, La Timone Hosp., Marseille, France: strain 68257 CIP <- 2008, M. Drancourt, Timone Hosp., Marseille, France: strain 68257

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Mycobacterium avium 68257 is an obligate aerobe, mesophilic, rod-shaped prokaryote of the family Mycobacteriaceae.

rod-shaped obligate aerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 395678

CIP 109826

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:47

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Mycobacteriaceae

Genus Mycobacterium

Species Mycobacterium avium

Full scientific name Mycobacterium avium Chester 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

Mycobacterium bouchedurhonense

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Mycobacterium avium** (33)	Type strain
24234	M. avium 4355387, DSM 45439, CCUG 56331, CIP 109827, ...
136994	M. avium 27497, CIP 109831
144176	M. avium CCUG 23311
144177	M. avium CCUG 23312
144178	M. avium CCUG 23313
145188	M. avium 140310067, CCUG 27851, ATCC 35767, TMC 1463, ...
145278	M. avium CCUG 28067
145315	M. avium CCUG 28168
145316	M. avium CCUG 28169
145317	M. avium CCUG 28170
145318	M. avium CCUG 28171
145337	M. avium CCUG 28216
161589	M. avium JCM 15429
161590	M. avium JCM 15430
161591	M. avium JCM 15431
161592	M. avium JCM 15432
164713	M. avium JCM 34066
164714	M. avium JCM 34067
164715	M. avium JCM 34068
164716	M. avium JCM 34069
164717	M. avium JCM 34070
164718	M. avium JCM 34071
164719	M. avium JCM 34072
164720	M. avium JCM 34073
164721	M. avium JCM 34074
171125	M. avium 140310064, 11907-300, CRBIP7.138, CIPT 138
171126	M. avium 140310065, 6194, CRBIP7.140, CIPT 140
171127	M. avium 14310068, 25546-759, CRBIP7.143, CIPT 143
171128	M. avium 34540, 14310069, CRBIP7.144, CIPT 144
171129	M. avium STB 42, 140310071, CRBIP7.146, CIPT 146
171130	M. avium Nutson 1784-286, 14310072, CRBIP7.147, CIPT ...
171131	M. avium 1602-1965, 140310073, CRBIP7.148, CIPT 148
171132	M. avium 140310094, CRBIP7.166, CIPT 166

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell shape	Motility
36838	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
36838	MEDIUM 93 - for Mycobacterium avium subsp. sylvaticum		Distilled water make up to (900.000 ml);Glycerol (4.500 ml);Middlebrook7H10 agar (17.000 g);Middelbrook OADC enrichment (100.000 ml)
36838	CIP Medium 93			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
36838	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

36838

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
36838	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
36838	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
36838	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
36838	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
36838	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	+	3.4.21.4	from API zym
36838	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
36838	-	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
36838		Marseille	France	FRA	Europe
36838	Human, Spit	Marseille	France	FRA	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
36838	2	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#36838	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 109826
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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