Species/Subspecies: | Mycobacterium ulcerans | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Category: | Primarily of interest in human medicin | ||||||||
Etymology: | Genus name: small fungus-like rod. Species epithet: cause ulceration | ||||||||
Significance: | [Of minor importance] | ||||||||
Taxonomy: | Class Actinomycetia Order Mycobacteriales Family Mycobacteriaceae Genus Mycobacterium |
||||||||
Type Strain: | ATCC 19423 =NTCC 10417 | ||||||||
Macromorphology (smell): | |||||||||
Micromorphology: | Acid-fast rods | ||||||||
Gram +/Gram -: | G+ (but difficult to gram stain) | ||||||||
Catalase/Oxidase: | |||||||||
Spec. Char.: | M. ulcerans is a slow grower (it takes more than 7 days to see colonies with the naked eye). | ||||||||
Disease: | Ulcerative skin infections. |
||||||||
Hosts: | Humans | ||||||||
Clinical Picture: | Ulcerative skin infections. | ||||||||
Virulence Factors: | Forms an extrcellular heat-labile toxin. | ||||||||
16S rRNA Seq.: |
| ||||||||
Taxonomy/phylogeny:
|
About 175 species have been described within genus Mycobacterium and this genus is closely related to Rhodococcus, Nocardia and Corynebacterium. M. ulcerans is very closely related to M. marinum. | ||||||||
Updated: | 2023-03-02 |
News |
---|
New names of bacterial phyla![]() The taxonomic category phylum was previously not regulated by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), but now this has changed and it was decided to revise the names of bacterial phyla. All phyla must be written in italics (which has been done on VetBact also before) and have the ending -ota. Published 2023-03-01. Read more... |
The taxonomy of chlamydias Species within the family Chlamydiaceae were previously divided into two genera Chlamydia and Chlamydophila. However, the differences between these two genera were not that great and many research groups have not accepted this division. Therefore, the genus Chlamydophila has been returned to the genus Chlamydia and this change has now been incorporated in VetBact Published 2023-03-15. Read more... |