Mycobacterium heidelbergense

Mycobacterium heidelbergense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Actinobacteria Order: Actinomycetales Suborder: Corynebacterineae Family: Mycobacteriaceae Genus: Mycobacterium Species: M. heidelbergense
Binomial name
Mycobacterium heidelbergense Haas et al. 1998, ATCC 51253

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Mycobacterium heidelbergense

Description

Gram-positive, and nonmotile acid-fast coccobacilli (0.5-0.8µm x 2.0-3.0µm).

Colony characteristics

• Smooth, dome-like and nonpigmented colonies on Löwenstein-Jensen media at 35°C (0.5 -1 mm in diameter).

Physiology

• Slow growth on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at 35°C within 3-4 weeks.
• Optimal growth at a temperature range from 33°C to 35°C, but also growth at 30°C and 37°C, neither growth at 25°C nor at 45°C.
• Susceptible to isoniazid, rifampicin and ethambutol.
• Resistant to pyrazinamide and cycloserine.

Differential characteristics

• Differentiation from M. malmoense, (bearing a strong phenotypic resemblance to M. heidelbergense), by its wider range of susceptibility to antituberculous drugs, (including isoniazid), and by its inability to grow on Löwenstein-Jensen medium at 25°C.
• Differentiation of M. triplex from M. heidelbergense by its positive nitrate reduction test and by its characteristic HPLC profile (triple-mycolate pattern).

Pathogenesis

• Cervical lymphadenitis in immunocompetent patients.
• Biosafety level not known

Type Strain

• First isolated from a immunocompetent paediatric patient with cervical lymphadenitis with recurrent fistula formation, in Heidelberg, Germany.

Strain 2554/91 = ATCC 51253 = CIP 105424 = DSM 44471.

References

• Haas et al. 1997. A new agent of mycobacterial lymphadenitis in children: Mycobacterium heidelbergense sp. nov. J. Clin. Microbiol. 35, 3203-3209.

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