Mycolicibacter paraterrae (formerly Mycobacterium paraterrae[3]) is a species of bacteria from the phylum
Actinomycetota that was first isolated from the
sputum of a patient with an unspecified pulmonary infection.[1] It forms orange colonies when grown in the dark and grows slowly at 25–37 °C.[5] It has also been isolated from
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abLee H, Lee SA, Lee IK, Yu HK, Park YG, Jeong J, Lee SH, Kim SR, Hyun JW, Kim K, et al. (2010). "Mycobacterium paraterrae sp. nov. recovered from a clinical specimen: Novel chromogenic slow growing mycobacteria related to Mycobacterium terrae complex". Microbiol Immunol. 54: 46–53.
doi:
10.1111/j.1348-0421.2009.00184.x.
PMID20055942.