Mycobacteroides immunogenum

Mycobacteroides immunogenum (formerly Mycobacterium immunogenum) is a species of bacteria from the phylum Actinomycetota, belonging to the genus Mycobacteroides.

Mycobacteroides immunogenum
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Mycobacteriales
Family: Mycobacteriaceae
Genus: Mycobacteroides
Species:
M. immunogenum
Binomial name
Mycobacteroides immunogenum
(Wilson et al. 2001) Gupta et al. 2018
Type strain
ATCC 700505
BH29
DSM 45594
DSM 45595
MC 779
Synonyms
  • Mycobacterium immunogenum Wilson et al. 2001

These non-tuberculous mycobacteria are sometimes found in fouling water-based cutting fluids, often causing hypersensitivity pneumonitis to the machinists in the affected grinding plants.

The complete genome sequence of Mycobacteroides immunogenum CCUG 47286T was deposited and published in DNA Data Bank of Japan, European Nucleotide Archive, and GenBank in 2016 under the accession number CP011530.

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