Mycobacterium chitae: a New Species

Abstract

A new species of Mycobacterium was described. Four strains of rapidly growing and non-pathogenic mycobacteria were isolated from soil by chicken passage, and were found to form one cluster by numerical classification based on similarity value. They were named Mycobacterium chitae (sp. nov.) and are deposited in the American Type Culture Collection (holotype; ATCC 19627).