Mycobacterium hodleri

Mycobacterium hodleri is a species of the phylum Actinomycetota (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 (1 μm x 1.8-2.3 μm).

Colony characteristics
 * Scotochromogenic colonies, production of a saffron yellow pigment on Middlebrook 7H10 agar and a chrome yellow pigment on trypticase soy agar.

Physiology
 * Fast growth on Middlebrook 7H10 and on trypticase soy agar at temperatures between 18 °C and 28 °C.
 * Capable of cooxidizing fluoranthene with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including pyrene and anthracene.

Pathogenesis

 * Pathogenicity is not known.
 * Biosafety level 1

Type strain
Strain EMI2 = CIP 104909 = DSM 44183 = JCM 12141 = LMG 19253
 * First isolated from a fluoranthene-contaminated site near Jülich, Germany.