''Mycobacterium indicus pranii'' (MIP), earlier known as Mw, is a non-

pathogenic In biology, a pathogen (, "suffering", "passion" and , "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease. A pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a germ. The term ...

mycobacterial species, which, based on its growth characteristics and metabolic properties, is validly classified as a member of the

Mycobacterium avium complex ''Mycobacterium avium ''complex is a group of mycobacteria comprising ''Mycobacterium intracellulare'' and ''Mycobacterium avium'' that are commonly grouped because they infect humans together; this group, in turn, is part of the group of nontub ...

. The novelty of this bacterium is due to its translational application as an immunotherapeutic. The

genome A genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding genes, other functional regions of the genome such as ...

of the organism has now been completely sequenced. The origin of the proposed name is a combination of the site of isolation of the bacterial species from India (indicus), discovery by ''Pran'' Talwar (''pran''ii) and characterization at the ''N''ational ''I''nstitute of ''I''mmunology, India (pra''nii'').

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q16977707 indicus pranii