%0 Journal Article %A TSUKAMURA, M. %T Mycobacterium Parafortuitum: a New Species %D 1966 %J Microbiology, %V 42 %N 1 %P 7-12 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/13500872-42-1-7 %I Microbiology Society, %X SUMMARY: A new species Mycobacterium parafortuitum is described. A number of strains of the genus Mycobacterium isolated from soil resembled M. fortuitum in their rapid growth, in their pattern of utilization of organic acids and in their pattern of amidase tests. However, these strains differed from M. fortuitum in the following points: they showed negative 3-day aryl-sulphatase test, they showed negative salicylate degradation and PAS degradation, they did not utilize nitrite as sole nitrogen source, and they formed acid from pentoses, arabinose, xylose, inositol and mannitol. This group of strains has been named as M. parafortuitum sp.nov. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/13500872-42-1-7