PROTEOBACTERIA >> Gamma >> Moraxella >> Moraxella lacunata
MORAXELLA LACUNATA
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Moraxella |
| Species: | Moraxella lacunata |
| Description: | Gram-negative, medium thick to plump rods, 0.8–1.2 μm in diameter, coccoid to distinctly bacillary, occurring predominantly in pairs and short chains. Frequently pleomorphic. May form narrow capsules. Nonmotile. |
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| Source: | M. lacunata subsp. lacunata has been isolated from inflamed and healthy human conjunctiva and from sites in the upper respiratory tract; occasionally isolatedfrom blood. Rarely isolated.M. lacunata subsp. liquefaciens has been isolated from a case of keratitis. It has also been isolated from cases of endocarditis and sinusitis and from the conjunctiva of healthy guinea pigs. |
| Pathogenicity: | May be the causative agent of human conjunctivitis and keratitis. One report of septic arthritis. |
| Genbank: | NZ_MXAN00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 2.82 |
| GC %: | 44.25 |
| Genes: | 2,753 |
| CDS Number: | 2,705 |
| Reference: | Elliot Juni and Kjell Bovre.Order IX Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921, Family II Moraxellaceae Rossau, Van Landschoot,Gillis and De Ley 1991 In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology,Second edition,Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief), pp. 411-442,, Anna Woodbury, James Jorgensen, Aaron Owens, Andres Henao‐Martinez:Moraxella lacunata Septic Arthritis in a Patient with Lupus Nephritis. J. Clin. Microbiol.,,Gabriel Ionescu, Delia Berceanu-Vaduva: Cocobacili Gram negativi nefermentativi. In: (Eds.) Dumitru Buiuc, Marian Negut. Tratat de microbiologie clinica, ed. a III-a, cap. 32.2, 787-795. |
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