Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Actinobacteria, Class Actinobacteria, Subclass Actibacteridae, Order Actynomycetales, Suborder Actinomycinae, Family
Actinomycetaceae, Genus Trueperella, Trueperella abortisuis (Azuma, Murakami, Ogawa, Okada, Miyazaki and Makino, 2009)
Yassin, Hupfer, Siering and Schumann, 2011.
Historical synonym: Arcanobacterium abortisuis Azuma, Murakami, Ogawa, Okada,
Miyazaki and Makino, 2009.
Gram-positive short and diphtheroid-shaped rods, arranged in V-shapes or palisades.
Non-motile. Non-spore-forming. Mycolic acids are not present.
Colonies have a translucent smooth surface. CAMP test is negative. Grows at 37 ºC.
Strictly anaerobic.
Isolated from a sow’s placenta after an abortion.
Isolated from a sow’s placenta after an abortion.
- Azuma R., Murakami S., Ogawa A., Okada Y., Miyazaki S. and Makino T., 2009. Arcanobacterium abortisuis sp. nov., isolated from
a placenta of a sow following an abortion. Int J Syst Evo Microbiol 59, 1469-1473.
- Yassin A.F., Hupfer H., Siering C. and Schumann P., 2011. Comparative chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic studies on the genus
Arcanobacterium Collins et al. 1982 emend. Lehnen et al. 2006: proposal for Trueperella gen. nov. and emended description of
the genus Arcanobacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 1265-1274.
Positive results for alpha- and beta-galactosidase, alpha-glucosidase, beta-glucuronidase, hippurate hydrolysis, leucine arylamidase,
nitrate reduction, starch hydrolysis, Voges-Proskauer test, acid production from: cellobiose, D-glucose, glycerol, glycogen, lactose
(weak reaction), maltose, D-mannitol & D-ribose.
Negative results for acid and alkaline phosphatase, arginine dihydrolase, catalase, esterase-lipase C8, indole production,
beta-glucosidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, gelatin hydrolysis, pyrazinamidase, pyrrolidonyl arylamidase, urease, acid
production from: L-arabinose, mannose, raffinose, L-rhamnose, salicin, D-sorbitol, sucrose, trehalose & D-xylose.
(c) Costin Stoica