Mycobacterium austroafricanum (DSM 44192, ATCC 33465, E 9790-SA 12442)

Name: Mycobacterium austroafricanum (DSM 44192, ATCC 33465, E 9790-SA 12442)
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BacDive ID 8449

Type strain

Strain Designation E 9790-SA 12442

Culture col. no. DSM 44192 ATCC 33465 E 9790-SA 12442

NCBI tax ID(s) 39687

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- ATCC <- M. Tsukamura, 9790 <- H. J. Nieuwoudt

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Mycobacterium austroafricanum E 9790-SA 12442 is a bacterium that was isolated from water.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 40511

ATCC 33465,DSM 44192

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:52

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Mycobacteriaceae

Genus Mycobacterium

Species Mycobacterium austroafricanum

Full scientific name Mycobacterium austroafricanum Tsukamura et al. 1983

Synonyms (3)

Mycolicibacterium vanbaalenii
Mycobacterium vanbaalenii
Mycolicibacterium austroafricanum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Mycobacterium austroafricanum** (3)	Type strain
8448	M. austroafricanum E9789-SA 12441, SA12441, 9789, 14 150 0001, ... (type strain)
8334	M. austroafricanum JOB-5, DSM 14262, ATCC 29678, CIP 105723
8515	M. austroafricanum PYR-1, CCUG 55853, LMG 19257, CIP 107822, ...

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
11590	MIDDLEBROOK MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 645)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MIDDLEBROOK MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 645) Composition: Bacto Middlebrook 7H10 agar 20.9945 g/l Glycerol Distilled water
11590	LÖWENSTEIN-JENSEN MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 354)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: LÖWENSTEIN-JENSEN MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 354) Composition: Potato flour 18.6104 g/l L-Asparagin 2.23325 g/l KH2PO4 1.55087 g/l Mg-citrate 0.372208 g/l Malachite green 0.248139 g/l MgSO4 0.148883 g/l Glycerol Fresh egg mixture Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
11590	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
11590	water	South Africa	ZAF	Africa

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
11590	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#11590	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 44192
#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 )
#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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