 Colony characteristics

Physiology

Differential characteristics
Belongs to the "Mycobacterium parafortuitum" complex.Which unifies rapidly growing, scotochromogenic mycobacteria ("M. parafortuitum", "Mycobacterium aurum", "Mycobacterium neoaurum", "M. diernhoferi" and "Mycobacterium austroafricanum").First isolated from soil in a cattle field (Germany).