Mycobacterium alvei

Mycobacterium alvei is a species of the phylum Actinobacteria (Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content, one of the dominant phyla of all bacteria), belonging to the genus Mycobacterium.
Description.
Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (1-3 µm x 0.5-0.7 µm).
Colony characteristics
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Type strain.
First isolated from water samples, from soil and human sputum samples in Spain.
Strain CR-21 = ATCC 51304 = CIP 103464 = DSM 44176 = JCM 12272.