Haematomicrobium sanguinis
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Phylum Actinobacteria, Class Actinobacteria, Order Micrococcales, Family Micrococcaceae, Genus Haematomicrobium,
Haematomicrobium sanguinis
Schumann et al. 2017, type species of the genus.

Synonym:
Arthrobacter sanguinis Mages, Frodl, Bernard and Funke, 2009.
Gram-positive coryneform bacteria without irregular branching. Spores are not
produced.
Colonies are whitish-grayish, slightly convex, creamy texture; up to 2 mm in diameter
after 24 h of incubation at 35 ºC on blood agar. Obligate aerobic.
Isolated from human blood culture. Susceptible to beta-lactams, doxycycline, gentamicin, rifampin, vancomycin and linezolid.
Undetermined. Isolated from human blood culture.
  1. Mages I.S., Frodl R., Bernard K.A. and Funke G., 2008. Identities of Arthrobacter spp. and Arthrobacter-Like Bacteria Encountered
    in Human Clinical Specimens. J. Clin. Microbiol. Vol. 46, No. 9, p. 2980-2986.
  2. Schumann, P. and Busse, H. J. 2017. Reclassification of Arthrobacter sanguinis (Mages et al. 2009) as Haematomicrobium
    sanguinis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 1052-1057.
Positive results for acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, catalase, esterase (C4),
esterase lipase (C8), alpha- and beta-galactosidase, alpha-glucosidase, gelatin
hydrolysis, N-acetyl-glucosaminidase, leucine arylamidase, alpha-mannosidase, pyrazinamidase and trypsin.

Negative results for cystine arylamidase, chymotrypsin, esculin hydrolysis, alpha-fucosidase, beta-glucosidase, beta-glucuronidase,
lipase, nitrate reduction, urease, acid production from: glucose, glycogen, lactose, maltose, mannitol, ribose, sucrose orxylose.
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