title: Mycobacterium palustre
text: # Mycobacterium palustre
  
  Mycobacterium palustre is a slowly growing mycobacterium first isolated from an environmental source in Finland. It is potentially pathogenic, and has been isolated from human and veterinary clinical specimens.
  
  ## Type strain
  
  * First isolated from water from a stream in Finland.
  * Strain E846 = ATCC BAA-377 = DSM 44572.
  