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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

species of bacterium
Taxon taxon Q130971
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Summary

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.48% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,648 views/month, #943 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • Parent taxon: Mycobacterium[4]
  • Taxon name: Mycobacterium tuberculosis[5]
  • Commons category: Mycobacterium tuberculosis[6]
  • Has effect: tuberculosis[7]
  • Short name: M. tuberculosis[8]
  • Taxon common name: Kochi kepike[9], Tuberkuloosi mükobakter[10], Tuberkuloosibakter[11], 結核桿菌[12]
  • LPSN URL: https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/mycobacterium-tuberculosis[13]
  • Gram staining: gram-positive bacteria[14]
  • Exact match: http://cat.aii.caas.cn/concept/23162[15], http://cat.aii.caas.cn/concept/23163[16], http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/15007[17]

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Identifiers

Mycobacterium tuberculosis's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 552103[18]. Recorded NCBI taxonomy ID include 1773[19] and 668339[20]. Mycobacterium tuberculosis's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 6385875[21]. Mycobacterium tuberculosis's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3225140[22]. Mycobacterium tuberculosis's ITIS TSN is recorded as 963806[23].

Why It Matters

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [19] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [23] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [21] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [22] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [7] ↑ . Disease Ontology. cdc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [13] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . AGROVOC. Retrieved . agrovoc.uniroma2.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [16] ↑ . AGROVOC. Retrieved . agrovoc.uniroma2.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [17] ↑ . AGROVOC. Retrieved . agrovoc.uniroma2.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ncbi taxonomy id → 1773, 668339
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Ncbi taxonomy id: 668339, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290307|batch #290307]]"
  2. 16d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['am', 'ar', 'arz', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', '
    J-global id → 200906007893342100
    Sitelink count → 53
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ J-global id: 200906007893342100, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/262209184|Mycobacterium tuberculosis (#262209184)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog"
  3. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i42562
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01379919-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has effect → tuberculosis
    Taxon rank → species
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007555873405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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