| Bordetella flabilis |
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Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Betaproteobacteria, Order Burkholderiales, Family Alcaligenaceae, Genus Bordetella, Bordetella
flabilis Vandamme et al. 2015.
flabilis Vandamme et al. 2015.
Gram-negative small rods with rounded ends, 0.2 x 1.2 μm, occuring single or in
pairs. Motile.
pairs. Motile.
Colonies are slightly convex, translucent and non-pigmented, with smooth margins,
and 0.5-1 mm in diameter after 72 h of incubationon trypticase soy agar at 28 ºC. Not
haemolytic on horse blood agar. No growth on cetrimide agar or on acetamide.
Can grow at 30, 37 and 42 ºC. No growth in nutrient broth with 3% NaCl. No
fluorescence on King’s B medium. Aerobic and anerobic growth.
and 0.5-1 mm in diameter after 72 h of incubationon trypticase soy agar at 28 ºC. Not
haemolytic on horse blood agar. No growth on cetrimide agar or on acetamide.
Can grow at 30, 37 and 42 ºC. No growth in nutrient broth with 3% NaCl. No
fluorescence on King’s B medium. Aerobic and anerobic growth.
Isolated from isolated from sputum of a cystic fibrosis patient in USA.
Undetermined.
- Vandamme P. A., Peeters, C., Cnockaert, M., Inganas, E., Falsen, E., Moore, E. R., Nunes, O. C., Manaia, C. M., Spilker, T. and
Lipuma, J. J. 2015. Bordetella bronchialis sp. nov., Bordetella flabilis sp. nov. and Bordetella sputigena sp. nov., isolated from
human respiratory specimens, and reclassification of Achromobacter sediminum Zhang et al. 2014 as Verticia sediminum gen.
nov., comb. nov Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 3674-3682.
Can utilize: D-gluconate, citrate, D-lactate and adipate (negative in API 20 NE).
Positive results for acid phosphatase (weak reaction) catalase, leucine arylamidase and oxidase.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, alkaline phosphatase, amylase, ONPG, PNPG, DNase, urease, lysine decarboxylase,
ornithine decarboxylase, nitrate reduction, nitrite reduction and denitrification; liquefaction of gelatin, hydrolysis of aesculin and Tween
80; indole production, H2S production in triple-sugar-iron agar, C8-lipase, C14-lipase, C4-lipase, valine arylamidase, cystine
arylamidase, trypsin, chymotrypsin, alpha- and beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, alpha- and beta-glucosidase,
N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, alpha-mannosidase, acid production from: D-glucose, maltose, adonitol, D-fructose and D-xylose;
No utilization of: D-glucose, trehalose, L-arginine, DL-norleucine, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N-acetylglucosamine,
maltose, caprate, sucrose, L-malate and phenylacetate.
Positive results for acid phosphatase (weak reaction) catalase, leucine arylamidase and oxidase.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, alkaline phosphatase, amylase, ONPG, PNPG, DNase, urease, lysine decarboxylase,
ornithine decarboxylase, nitrate reduction, nitrite reduction and denitrification; liquefaction of gelatin, hydrolysis of aesculin and Tween
80; indole production, H2S production in triple-sugar-iron agar, C8-lipase, C14-lipase, C4-lipase, valine arylamidase, cystine
arylamidase, trypsin, chymotrypsin, alpha- and beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, alpha- and beta-glucosidase,
N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, alpha-mannosidase, acid production from: D-glucose, maltose, adonitol, D-fructose and D-xylose;
No utilization of: D-glucose, trehalose, L-arginine, DL-norleucine, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N-acetylglucosamine,
maltose, caprate, sucrose, L-malate and phenylacetate.
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