Mycobacterium intermedium

Mycobacterium intermedium 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".
Etymology: Latin; intermedium, meaning between, rapidly and slowly growing mycobacteria.
Description.
Gram-positive, and nonmotile acid-fast coccobacilli (2.0 µm x 2.6 µm).
Colony characteristics
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Type strain.
Strain 1669/91 = ATCC 51848 = CCUG 37583 = CIP 104542 = DSM 44049 = JCM 13572