Mycobacterium pyrenivorans is a scotochromogenic, rapidly growing mycobacterium, first isolated from an enrichment culture obtained from soil that was highly contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

The soil sample was collected on the site of a former coking plant at Ubach-Palenberg, Germany.

Etymology: pyrenivorans; digesting pyrene.

Microscopy Colony characteristics Physiology Differential characteristics

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