Mycobacterium bolletii

Mycobacterium bolletii
Mycobacterium bolletii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Corynebacterineae
Family: Mycobacteriaceae
Genus: Mycobacterium
Species: M. bolletii
Binomial name
Mycobacterium bolletii
Adékambi et al. 2006, CCUG 50184

Mycobacterium bolletii

Type strain: strain BD = CCUG 50184 = CIP 108541.

Etymology: N.L. gen. n. bolletii, of Bollet, to honour Claude Bollet, a famous clinical microbiologist and taxonomist.

References

ADÉKAMBI (T.), BERGER (P.), RAOULT (D.) and DRANCOURT (M.): rpoB gene sequence-based characterization of emerging non-tuberculous mycobacteria with descriptions of Mycobacterium bolletii sp. nov., Mycobacterium phocaicum sp. nov. and Mycobacterium aubagnense sp. nov. Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 133-143. PMID 16403878