Mycobacterium haemophilum

Mycobacterium haemophilum 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.
Short, occasionally curved, gram-positive, nonmotile and strongly acid-fast rods.
Colony characteristics
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Distribution.
Type strain.
First isolated in Israel from a subcutaneous granuloma from a patient with Hodgkin's disease. An environmental reservoir is presumed.
Strain ATCC 29548 = CCUG 47452 = CIP 105049 = DSM 44634 = NCTC 11185.