Mycobacterium cookii

Mycobacterium cookii 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 polymorphic acid-fast rods (0.8 µm x 1.4–1.9 µm). Forms clumps, but not cords or cross bands. Does not form spores, capsules and aerial hyphae.
Colony characteristics
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Type strain.
Strain NZ2 = ATCC 49103 = CIP 105396 = DSM 43922 = JCM 12404.