| Sr. No. | Strain | Category | Description |
| 1 | M_abscessus | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium abscessus, formerly Mycobacterium chelonae subsp. abscessus, is a rapid-growing Mycobacterium sp., commonly isolated from soil and water. This organism causes a chronic lung infection, similar to tuberculosis, in patients with cystic fibrosis. |
| 2 | M_africanum_GM041182 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterim africanum is most commonly found in West African countries and its symptoms of infection are similar to those of M. tuberculosis. Infection by M. africanum is an important opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV. It was sequenced by Sanger, and has x genes. |
| 3 | M_avium_104 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain is a common representative of the species complex. It was derived from an AIDS patient and has been characterized for virulence in the murine model of low-dose aerosol infection in that it could colonize the lung, proliferate within the tissue and disseminate to other organs. This strain will be used for comparative analysis with other Mycobacterium species. |
| 4 | M_avium_K-10 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This organism is a slowly growing species, with doubling times of around 22-24 hours. This bacterium is not common in the environment, and is predominantly found as an intracellular parasite. |
| 5 | M_bovis_AF2122_97 | Vaccine strain | M. bovis was also the progenitor for the M. bovis bacillus Calmette-Gurein, the most widely used human vaccine. It is 4,345,492-bp genome sequence of M. bovis AF2122/97 and its comparison with the genomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae. |
| 6 | M_bovis_BCG_str_Korea | Vaccine strain | It is Korean variant of BCG vaccine strain |
| 7 | M_bovis_BCG_str_Mexico | Vaccine strain | It is Mexico variant of BCG vaccine strain |
| 8 | M_bovis_BCG_str_Pasteur_1173P2 | Vaccine strain | It is a variant of BCG vaccine strain subcultured at Pasteur Institute. |
| 9 | M_bovis_BCG_str_Tokyo_172 | Vaccine strain | |
| 10 | M_canettii_CIPT_140010059 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The sequences are related to the Mycobacterium canettii strain (EMBL accession number PRJEA68135) recently deposited by the Sanger Institute, which is also included in this collaborative project. |
| 11 | M_canettii_CIPT_140010059_3861 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The sequences are related to the Mycobacterium canettii strain (EMBL accession number PRJEA68135) recently deposited by the Sanger Institute, which is also included in this collaborative project. |
| 12 | M_canettii_CIPT_140060008 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The sequences are related to the Mycobacterium canettii strain (EMBL accession number PRJEA68135) recently deposited by the Sanger Institute, which is also included in this collaborative project. |
| 13 | M_canettii_CIPT_140070008 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The sequences are related to the Mycobacterium canettii strain (EMBL accession number PRJEA68135) recently deposited by the Sanger Institute, which is also included in this collaborative project. |
| 14 | M_canettii_CIPT_140070010 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The sequences are related to the Mycobacterium canettii strain (EMBL accession number PRJEA68135) recently deposited by the Sanger Institute, which is also included in this collaborative project. |
| 15 | M_canettii_CIPT_140070017 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The sequences are related to the Mycobacterium canettii strain (EMBL accession number PRJEA68135) recently deposited by the Sanger Institute, which is also included in this collaborative project. |
| 16 | M_chubuense_NBB4 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | A rapidly growing, scotochromogenis mycobacterium. |
| 17 | M_gilvum_PYR-GCK | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium gilvum PYR-GCK was isolated from river sediment and will be used for comparative genomics. This genus comprises a number of Gram-positive, acid-fast, rod-shaped aerobic bacteria and is the only member of the family Mycobacteriaceae within the order Actinomycetales. |
| 18 | M_gilvum_Spyr1 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium sp. Spyr1 was isolated from a creosote contaminated site and will be used for comparative analysis. This genus comprises a number of Gram-positive, acid-fast, rod-shaped aerobic bacteria and is the only member of the family Mycobacteriaceae within the order Actinomycetales. |
| 19 | M_indicus_prani_MTCC_9506 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP), a taxonomically unknown generalist mycobacterium, acts as an immunotherapeutic against leprosy and is approved for use as a vaccine against it. MIP, commercially available as Immuvac, is currently the focus of advanced phase III clinical trials for its antituberculosis efficacy. |
| 20 | M_intracellulare_ATCC_13950 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium intracellulare. Mycobacterium intracellulare is a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). These organisms cause tuberculosis in birds, and pulmonary and disseminated infections in immunocompromized humans. |
| 21 | M_intracellulare_MOTT-02 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium intracellulare. Mycobacterium intracellulare is a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). These organisms cause tuberculosis in birds, and pulmonary and disseminated infections in immunocompromized humans. |
| 22 | M_intracellulare_MOTT-64 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium intracellulare. Mycobacterium intracellulare is a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). These organisms cause tuberculosis in birds, and pulmonary and disseminated infections in immunocompromized humans. |
| 23 | M_kansasii_ATCC_12478 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium kansasii ATCC 12478 (Hauduroy) is a well-studied clinical isolate and will be used for comparative analysis.Mycobacterium kansasii is a photochromic (produces pigment when exposed to light) species which causes a tuberculosis-like disease. |
| 24 | M_leprae_Br4923 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain was isolated from a human skin biopsy in Brazil, and passaged in nude mice and armadillos. The bacterium is a close relative of M. tuberculosis. However, compared to the latter, the genome of M. leprae is smaller due to reductive genome evolution. |
| 25 | M_leprae_TN | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain (TN) was passaged through an armadillo in Tamil Nadu, India, and is the only strain of this species that has been successfully produced in quantities large enough for sequencing and biochemical analyses as the nine-banded armadillo was used as a surrogate host. |
| 26 | M_liflandiii_128FXT | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | it is also known as Mycobacterium ulcerans subsp. liflandii, was first isolated from a colony of African clawed frogs. This organism causes a fatal systemic disease in frogs often characterized by skin lesions. Mycobacterium liflandii produces a polyketide toxin mycolactone E and two highly antigenic proteins ESAT-6 and CFP-10 which account, in part, for its pathogenicity. |
| 27 | M_marinum | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain is a well-studied human isolate that is susceptible to a relatively wider range of antibiotics than other M. marinum isolates and thus has a potential to be easier to use in genetic and molecular biological studies. |
| 28 | M_massiliense_GO_06 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium massiliense is a rapidly growing bacteria associated with opportunistic infections. A representative isolate (strain GO 06) recovered from wound samples of patients submitted to arthroscopic and laparoscopic surgeries had its genome sequenced. |
| 29 | M_rhodesiae_NBB3 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This organism was originally isolated from a case of tuberculosis although its pathogenicity to humans is in question. http://www.pdiconnect.com/content/28/1/97.long http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5316571 |
| 30 | M_smegmatis_JS623 | | |
| 31 | M_smegmatis_MC2_155 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This bacterium was initially isolated from human smegma. It is associated with soft tissue lesions following trauma or surgery. It is also reported as a possible factor in penile carcinogenesis. |
| 32 | M_smegmatis_MKD8 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium smegmatis is a non-pathogenic, rapidly growing relative of pathogenic mycobacteria that cause tuberculosis or leprosy. Some studies that would be difficult or impossible in the pathogenic strains can often be performed in M. smegmatis. |
| 33 | M_smegmatis_str_MC2_155 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This bacterium was initially isolated from human smegma. It is associated with soft tissue lesions following trauma or surgery. It is also reported as a possible factor in penile carcinogenesis. |
| 34 | M_smegmatis_str_MC2_155_second | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This bacterium was initially isolated from human smegma. It is associated with soft tissue lesions following trauma or surgery. It is also reported as a possible factor in penile carcinogenesis. |
| 35 | M_ulcerans_Agy99 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This organism causes Buruli ulcer and is the third most common mycobacterial pathogen after Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae. The disease has increased dramatically through central and West Africa since the late 1980s. |
| 36 | M_vanbaalenii_PYR-1 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain (PYR-1; DSM 7251; NRRL B-24157) is the type strain and was isolated from contaminated sites exposed to petrogenic chemicals in the watershed of Redfish Bay, Texas, in 1986.Mycobacterium vanbaalenii is a fast-growing soil mycobacterium which can degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as fluoranthene, pyrene, phenanthrene. This organism may be useful for bioremediation. |
| 37 | Mtb_7199-99 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Analysis of an TB outbreak in Northern Germany. |
| 38 | Mtb_CCDC5079 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain belongs to the Beijing family. Strain CCDC5079 is susceptible to isoniazid, rifampicin, streptomycin and ethambutol. This strain is sequenced for comparative genomic studies. |
| 39 | Mtb_CCDC5180 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain was isolated in 2004 from a patient with secondary pulmonary tuberculosis. Strain CCDC5180 is resistant to isoniazid, rifampicin, streptomycin and ethambutol. |
| 40 | Mtb_CDC_1551 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain, also nicknamed Oshkosh, is a recent clinical isolate from a clothing factory worker from the Kentucky/Tennessee, USA, region. However, this strain has not caused epidemics in man and is sensitive to a wide range of drugs. |
| 41 | Mtb_CTRI-2 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This M.tuberculosis isolate was cultivated in Molecular-genetic research lab of Central Tuberculosis Research Institute. This strain is sensitive to all common drugs used in tuberculosis treatment. |
| 42 | Mtb_F11 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This strain (genotype F11) represents the largest portion of isolates recovered from tuberculosis patients during a TB epidemic in the Western Cape of South Africa. It is also found in other parts of the world. |
| 43 | Mtb_H37Ra | Avirulent lab strain | This strain (H37Ra; ATCC 25177) is an avirulent strain derived from its virulentparent strain H37 (isolated from a 19 year-old male patient with chronic pulmonary tuberculosis by Edward R. Baldwin in 1905) |
| 44 | Mtb_H37Rv | Virulent lab strain | This strain has been derived from the original human-lung H37 isolate in 1934, and has been used extensively worldwide in biomedical research. Unlike some clinical isolates, it retains full virulence in animal models of tuberculosis and is susceptible to drugs and receptive to genetic manipulation. |
| 45 | Mtb_H37Rv_broad | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Genomic DNA, wild types, parents and mutants provided by John Aquadro at the Broad Institute. |
| 46 | Mtb_KZN_1435 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | M. tuberculosis strain KZN 1435 was isolated from a patient in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This strain is multidrug-resistant (resistant to isoniazid and rifampin). |
| 47 | Mtb_KZN_4207-3996 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium tuberculosis KZN 4207 is a wild-type (drug-sensitive) strain from the KwaZulu-Natal region in South Africa. |
| 48 | Mtb_KZN_4207 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium tuberculosis KZN 4207 is a wild-type (drug-sensitive) strain from the KwaZulu-Natal region in South Africa. |
| 49 | Mtb_KZN_605 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | M. tuberculosis strain KZN 605 was isolated from a patient in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This strain is extensively drug-resistant (XDR). |
| 50 | Mtb_KZN_R506 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium tuberculosis KZN R5065 is a clinical XDR (extensively-drug resistant) strain from the KwaZulu-Natal region in South Africa. It is resistant to isoniazid, rifampicin, streptomycin, kanamycin and ofloxacin. |
| 51 | Mtb_KZN_V2475 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium tuberculosis KZN V2475 is a clinincal MDR (multi-drug resistant) strain from the KwaZulu-Natal region in South Africa. It is resistant to isoniazid, rifampicin, and streptomycin, but not kanamycin or ofloxacin. |
| 52 | Mtb_RGTB327 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The strain has been sequenced to study polymorphism and the unique regions in specific genes. The strain belongs to South India |
| 53 | Mtb_RGTB423 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The strain has been sequenced to study polymorphism and the unique regions in specific genes. The strain belongs to South India |
| 54 | Mtb_UT205 | Tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Whole genome shotgun sequencing of one Colombian clinical isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals DosR regulon gene deletions., FEMS Microbiol Lett, 2012 Mar 28;330(2):113-20 |
| 55 | Mycobacterium_sp_JDM601 | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | The strain has been sequenced for compartive genomics and it is Gram-positive, acid-fast, pleomorphic, non-motile rods characterized by distinctive cell surface mycolic acid derivatives. |
| 56 | Mycobacterium_sp_JLS | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This organism was isolated from creosote-contaminated soil from the Champion International Superfund site in Libby, Montana. This microbe, along with some others collected at this site, are able to rapidly mineralize 14C-labeled pyrene. |
| 57 | Mycobacterium_sp_KMS | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | This organism was isolated from creosote-contaminated soil from the Champion International Superfund site in Libby, Montana. This microbe, along with some others collected at this site, are able to rapidly mineralize 14C-labeled pyrene. |
| 58 | Mycobacterium_sp_MCS | Non tuberculoid Mycobacteria | Mycobacterium MCS was isolated from soil in a wood preservative-contaminated land-treatment unit where remediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) was occurring. |
| 59 | Mycobacterium_sp_MOTT36Y | | |