PROTEOBACTERIA >> Gamma >> Plesiomonas >> Plesiomonas shigelloides
PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Plesiomonas |
| Species: | Plesiomonas shigelloides |
| Description: | Plesiomonas shigelloides is a Gram-negative, flagellated, rod-shaped bacterium. |
| Synonyms: | Pseudomonas shigelloides Bader 1954, "Aeromonas shigelloides" (Bader 1954) Ewing et al. 1961, "Fergusonia shigelloides" (Bader 1954) Sebald and Véron 1963. |
| Source: | isolated from freshwater, freshwater fish, and shellfish and from many types of animals including humas, cattle, goats, swine, cats, dogs, monkeys, P. shigelloides has been isolated from a wide variety of human clinical specimens including both intestinal and extra-intestinal. |
| Pathogenicity: | The infections correlate strongly with the surface water contamination and are particularly common in tropical and subtropical habitatsHuman infections with P. shigelloides are mostly related to drinking untreated water, eating uncooked shellfish, and visiting countries with low sanitary standards. Recent studies implicated P. shigelloides as an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised hosts and especially neonates. However, it has also been associated with diarrheal illnessa nd other diseases in normal hosts. P. shigelloides has been isolated from an assortment of clinical specimens, including cerebrospinal fluid, wounds, and respiratory tract. It causes gastrointestinal and localized infections originating from infected wounds, which can disseminate to other parts of the body. The cases of meningitis and bacteremia caused by P. shigelloides are of special interest due to their seriousness. |
| Genbank: | LT575468.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 3.91 |
| GC %: | 51.6 |
| Genes: | 3,042 |
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| Reference: | Niedziela T, Lukasiewicz J, Jachymek W, Dzieciatkowska M, Lugowski C, Kenne L (April 2002). "Core oligosaccharides of Plesiomonas shigelloides O54:H2 (strain CNCTC 113/92): structural and serological analysis of the lipopolysaccharide core region, the O-antigen biological repeating unit, and the linkage between them". J. Biol. Chem. 277 (14): 11653–63 |
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