title: Mycobacterium hodleri
text: # 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
  
  * First isolated from a fluoranthene-contaminated site near Jülich, Germany.
  
  Strain EMI2 = CIP 104909 = DSM 44183 = JCM 12141 = LMG 19253
  
  