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BREVUNDIMONAS DIMINUTA
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Brevundimonas |
| Species: | Brevundimonas diminuta |
| Description: | Brevundimonas diminuta is non-lactose-fermenting environmental Gram-negative bacilli .Brevundimonas diminuta is actively motile with predominantly a single polar flagellum. One unusual morphological feature is that many of the individuals have flagellum originating from the periphery of the pole rather than the center of the pole . B. diminuta grows very readily in a simple peptone solution at optimal pH around 7 and at optimal temperature around 35°C . The organism does not ferment any carbohydrates and shows no hemolysis activity, and it oxidizes ethanol to acid. |
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| Source: | Brevundimonas diminuta is rarely isolated from environmental specimens (water) and clinical specimens (blood) |
| Pathogenicity: | Even though it is not considered pathogenic, there have been multiple clinical case reports relating this microbe with infections in patients with cancer . All clinical strains that were tested showed that this microbe is intrinsically resistant to fluoroquinolones |
| Genbank: | FJ867922.1(strain LCB53 16S ribosomal RNA gene) [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
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| Reference: | Han, X., and Andrade, R. 2005. “Brevundimonas diminuta infections and its resistance to fluoroquinolones”. “Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy” 55 (6): 853-859. http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/6/853.full and Leifson, E., and Hugh, R. 1954. “A New Type of Polar Monotrichous Flagellation.” “Microbiology.” 10: 68-70. http://mic.sgmjournals.org/content/10/1/68.full.pdf+html |
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