| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Bacteria (Haeckel, 1894) Woese, Kandler Wheelis, 1990 - bacterians |
| phylum | Actinobacteria Margulisová, 1974 |
| class | Actinobacteria Stackebrandt, Rainey & Ward-Rainey, 1997 |
| subclass | Actinobacteridae Stackebrandt et al., 1997 |
| order | Actinomycetales Buchanan, 1917 |
| suborder | Corynebacterineae Stackebrandt et al., 1997 |
| family | Mycobacteriaceae Chester, 1897 |
| genus | Mycobacterium Lehmann & Neumann, 1896 |
| species group | Mycobacterium tuberculosis |