title: Mycobacterium moriokaense
text: # Mycobacterium moriokaense
  
  Mycobacterium moriokaense Etymology: moriokaense, from Morioka, Japan where the organism was first isolated.
  
  ## Description
  
  Gram-positive, nonmotile and acid-fast rods (2-6 µm x 0.5 µm).
  
  Colony characteristics
  
  * Dry, rough and nonpigmented (nonphotochromogenic) colonies.
  
  Physiology
  
  * Rapid growth on Löwenstein-Jensen media at 28 °C, 37 °C and 42 °C, but not at 45 °C within 3 days.
  
  ## Pathogenesis
  
  * Biosafety level 1
  
  ## Type strain
  
  * First isolated from sputum of a patient with tuberculosis and from soil in Morioka, Japan.
  
  Strain NCH E11715 = ATCC 43059 = CCUG 37671 = CIP 105393 = DSM 44221 = JCM 6375 = VKM Ac-1183.
  
  