Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Betaproteobacteria, Order Burkholderiales, Family Alcaligenaceae, Genus Achromobacter,
Achromobacter pulmonis Vandamme et al. 2013.
Gram-negative, small rods. Motile.
Grows on blood agar and trypto casein soja agar at 30 ºC. Can grow on cetrimide
agar, but not on acetamide. Can grow in 3% NaCl, but not in 4.5% NaCl.
Isolated from sputum of cystic fibrosis patient.
Undetermined.
- Vandamme, P. A., Peeters, C., Inganas, E., Cnockaert, M., Houf, K., Spilker, T., Moore, E. R. B. and Lipuma, J. J. 2016. Taxonomic
dissection of Achromobacter denitrificans Coenye et al. 2003 and proposal of Achromobacter agilis sp. nov., nom. rev.,
Achromobacter pestifer sp. nov., nom. rev., Achromobacter kerstersii sp. nov. and Achromobacter deleyi sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol.
Microbiol., 66, 3708-3717.
- Carola Sohngen, Adam Podstawka, Boyke Bunk, Dorothea Gleim, Anna Vetcininova, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Christian Ebeling,
Cezar Pendarovski, Jorg Overmann, 2016. BacDive - The Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase in 2016. Nucleic Acids Research,
Volume 44, Issue D1, Pages D581-D585.
Positive results for catalase, nitrate reduction and oxidase.
Assimilate: adipate, caprate, citrate, D-gluconate, L-malate, D-lactate + methionine and
phenylacetate.
Negative results for acid and alkaline phosphatase, arginine dihydrolase, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, beta-galactosidase,
indole production, beta-glucosidase, C4-lipase, nitrite reduction, denitrification, phosphoamidase, urease, and acid production from
glucose.
No assimilation of: L-arabinose, glucose, D-lactate, D-mannose, D-maltose, mannitol and N-acetyl-glucosamine.
(c) Costin Stoica