Mycobacterium chelonae (DSM 46627, IMET 10611, 788)

Name: Mycobacterium chelonae (DSM 46627, IMET 10611, 788)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 8571

Type strain

Strain Designation 788

Culture col. no. DSM 46627 IMET 10611 788 #788 STI10611

NCBI tax ID(s) 1774

Special Collections DSMZ JMRC

History DSMZ <- IMET <- R.E. Gordon, 788

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Mycobacterium chelonae 788 is a human pathogen of the family Mycobacteriaceae.

human pathogen Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 50864

DSM 46627,IMET 10611

@ref 20215

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Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Mycobacteriaceae

Genus Mycobacterium

Species Mycobacterium chelonae

Full scientific name Mycobacterium chelonae corrig. Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

Mycobacterium chelonei
Mycobacteroides chelonae

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Mycobacterium chelonae** (17)	Type strain
8570	M. chelonae RAMC, Friedman, 14 042 0003, 1544, DSM 43804, ... (type strain)
159823	M. chelonae MOTT36W, KCTC 29127, JCM 32454 (type strain)
8413	M. chelonae CCUG 27981, DSM 44159, ATCC 35750, TMC 1537, ...
8560	M. chelonae 10546, DSM 43217, ATCC 19236, SN 281R
8561	M. chelonae Magnussen 921, Schering 237, 380, 30, DSM ...
8562	M. chelonae DSM 43483, ATCC 19535, SN 282
8563	M. chelonae DSM 43484, ATCC 19536, SN 283
8564	M. chelonae DSM 43485, ATCC 19537, SN 284
8565	M. chelonae DSM 43486, ATCC 19538, SN 285
8567	M. chelonae DSM 43488, ATCC 19539, SN 287
8568	M. chelonae DSM 43489, ATCC 19540, IMET 10657, SN 288
8569	M. chelonae DSM 43490, SN 289
145252	M. chelonae CCUG 27980, TMC 1524
145273	M. chelonae CCUG 28057
147791	M. chelonae CCUG 34239
148520	M. chelonae CCUG 35585
149487	M. chelonae CCUG 37827

Morphology

Multimedia

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
12596	RICH MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 736)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: RICH MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 736) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l Bacto peptone 10.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l Malt extract 5.0 g/l Casamino acids 5.0 g/l Glycerol 2.0 g/l Meat extract 2.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 1.0 g/l Tween 80 0.05 g/l Distilled water
12596	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
12596	MYCOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 219)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MYCOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 219) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l Na2HPO4 x 12 H2O 2.5 g/l Yeast extract 2.0 g/l Proteose peptone no. 3 2.0 g/l Casein peptone 2.0 g/l Sodium citrate 1.5 g/l KH2PO4 1.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.6 g/l Tween 0.5 g/l Glycerol Distilled water
12596	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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
12596	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
12596			2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#12596	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 46627
#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 )
#20216	Curators of the JMRC: Jena Microbial Resource Collection (JMRC):
#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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