Mycobacterium diernhoferi

Mycobacterium diernhoferi 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 (2-6 µm x 0.5 µm).
Colony characteristics
Physiology
Differential characteristics
Belongs to the "Mycobacterium parafortuitum" complex. Which unifies rapidly growing, scotochromogenic mycobacteria ("M. parafortuitum", "Mycobacterium aurum", "Mycobacterium neoaurum", "M. diernhoferi" and "Mycobacterium austroafricanum").
Type strain.
First isolated from soil in a cattle field (Germany).
Strain 41001 = ATCC 19340 = CIP 105384 = DSM 43524 = HAMBI 2269 = IFO (now NBRC) 14756 = JCM 6371.