PROTEOBACTERIA >> Gamma >> Aeromonas >> Aeromonas veronii
AEROMONAS VERONII
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Aeromonas |
| Species: | Aeromonas veronii |
| Description: | Gram-negative, straight rod, nonspore-forming, nonencapsulated. Motile by a polar flagellum.Strongly beta-hemolytic colonies on sheep blood agar. Optimum growth temperature 28-30 ºC. No brown diffusible pigment is produced on TSA. |
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| Source: | Isolated from aquatic environments, including leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) and human clinical specimens. |
| Pathogenicity: | isolated from human clinical specimens; diarrhea, wounds, pulmonary complications, sinusitis,wounds & bacteremia.associated with gastrointestinal disease and a wide array of extraintestinal and systemic disease including septicemia, wound infections, meningitis, peritonitis, septic arthritis, and hepatobiliary disease.Symbiont of the medicinal leech(Hirudo medicinalis). |
| Genbank: | X60414.2(16s rRNA) [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
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| Reference: | F W Hickman-Brenner, K L MacDonald, A G Steigerwalt, G R Fanning, D J Brenner, and J J Farmer 3rd.Aeromonas veronii, a new ornithine decarboxylase-positive species that may cause diarrhea.J. Clin Microbiol. May 1987 25:5 900-906.,,Amy Martin-Carnahan and Samuel W. Joseph 2004. Order XII. Aeromonadales ord. nov. In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second edition,Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief), pp. 556-587.,,Joerg Graf. Symbiosis of Aeromonas veronii Biovar sobriaand Hirudo medicinalis, the Medicinal Leech: a Novel Model for Digestive Tract Associations. Infect. Immun. January 1999 67:1-7.,,M. D. Collins, A. J. Martinez-Murcia, and J. Cai. Aeromonas enteropelogenesand Aeromonas ichthiosmia Are Identical to Aeromonas trota and Aeromonas veronii, Respectively, as Revealed by Small-Subunit rRNA Sequence Analysis. Int J Syst Bacteriol October 1993 43:855-856. |
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