PROTEOBACTERIA >> Gamma >> Photobacterium >> Photobacterium damselae
PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Photobacterium |
| Species: | Photobacterium damselae |
| Description: | Gram-negative rods, sometimes motile, not swarming on solid media.Colonies are smooth, slightly convex, greyish or whitish, often hemolytic on blood agar and their diameter is between 2.5 to 3 mm.Can grow in nutrient broth with: 1% & 6% NaCl. No growth in 0%, 8%, 10% & 12% NaCl.Growth temperature 30 - 35 ºC. No growth at 4 ºC |
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| Source: | isolated from fish Chromis punctipinnis and marine algae (important in disease transmission to fish), sewage,oysters & a wound culture from a racoon. Sensible to O/129 vibriostatic agent (10 & 150 μg). |
| Pathogenicity: | Causes skin ulcers in fish Chromis punctipinnis. It is an opportunistic pathogen capable of causing disease in a variety of hosts, including sharks (Grimes et al., 1984), dolphins (Fujioka et al., 1988) and humans. |
| Genbank: | NZ_ADBS00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 5.05 |
| GC %: | 40.7 |
| Genes: | 4,572 |
| CDS Number: | 4,267 |
| Reference: | J.J. Farmer, M. Janda, 2004. Family I. Vibrionaceae. In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second edition,Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief), pp. 491-546.,,An Thyssen, Frans Ollevier,2004. Genus II. Photobacterium Beijerinck 1889. In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology,Second edition,Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity Editor-in-Chief),pp. 546-555.,,J. G.Holt et al., 1994.Group 5 Facultatively anaerobic Gram-negative rods. Subgroup 2 Family Vibrionaceae.In: Begey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9-th edition, Williams & Wilkins.pp. 190-194.,,.Judith A. Johnson, 2006. Vibrio. In: Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections, 10 edition, Vol. 2, Bacteriology, Edward Arnold Ltd., 1507-1523 |
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