| Arcanobacterium pluranimalium |
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Phylum Actinobacteria, Class Actinobacteria, Subclass Actibacteridae, Order Actynomycetales, Suborder Actinomycinae, Family
Actinomycetaceae, Genus Arcanobacterium, Arcanobacterium pluranimalium Lawson, Falsen, Foster, Eriksson, Weiss and Collins
2001.
Actinomycetaceae, Genus Arcanobacterium, Arcanobacterium pluranimalium Lawson, Falsen, Foster, Eriksson, Weiss and Collins
2001.
Gram-positive straight or slightly curved, non-branching, slender rods.
Non-spore-forming.
Non-spore-forming.
Growth, after incubation in 5% CO2 atmosphere, on 5% horse blood Columbia (Difco)
agar. Alpha-haemolytic. Facultative anaerobic. Grows at 37 ºC.
agar. Alpha-haemolytic. Facultative anaerobic. Grows at 37 ºC.
Isolated from dead sallow deer and harbour porpoise. Habitat is not known.
Isolated from a lung abscess of a dead sallow deer and from the spleen of a dead harbour porpoise.
- Lawson P.A., Falsen E., Foster G., Eriksson E., Weiss N. and Collins M. D., 2002. Arcanobacterium pluranimalium sp. nov.,
isolated from porpoise and deer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 51, 55-59.
Description is based on API rapid ID32 Strep and API CORYNE (bioMerieux) results.
Non-acid-fast.
Positive results for alanine phenylalanine proline arylamidase, catalase, esculin hydrolysis (weak reaction), beta-glucuronidase, gelatin
hydrolysis, hippurate hydrolysis, pyrrolidonyl arylamidase, acid production from: D-glucose & D-ribose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, alkaline phosphatase, alpha- and beta-galactosidase, alpha- and beta-glucosidase,
beta-mannosidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, nitrate reduction, Voges-Proskauer test, acid production from: L-arabinose,
D-arabitol, cyclodextrin, glycogen, lactose, mannitol, melezitose, melibiose, pullulan, D-raffinose, sorbitol, sucrose, tagatose, trehalose
& D-xylose.
Variable results for pyrazinamidase & acid production from maltose.
Non-acid-fast.
Positive results for alanine phenylalanine proline arylamidase, catalase, esculin hydrolysis (weak reaction), beta-glucuronidase, gelatin
hydrolysis, hippurate hydrolysis, pyrrolidonyl arylamidase, acid production from: D-glucose & D-ribose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, alkaline phosphatase, alpha- and beta-galactosidase, alpha- and beta-glucosidase,
beta-mannosidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, nitrate reduction, Voges-Proskauer test, acid production from: L-arabinose,
D-arabitol, cyclodextrin, glycogen, lactose, mannitol, melezitose, melibiose, pullulan, D-raffinose, sorbitol, sucrose, tagatose, trehalose
& D-xylose.
Variable results for pyrazinamidase & acid production from maltose.
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