Pasteurella langaaensis
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Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Pasteurellales, Family Pasteurellaceae, Genus Pasteurella, Pasteurella
langaa  
Mutters, Ihm, Pohl, Frederiksen and Mannheim, 1985.
P. langaa changed to P. langaaensis - corrected by Trüper and De' Clari 1998.
Non-motile, Gram-negative, coccobacillary cells.
Nonhemolytic, 1.5 mm in diameter, smooth &  grayish-white colonies.  V-factor
independent growth. Can grow on MacConkey agar.
Isolated from the respiratory tract of chickens.
Strains are found in the respiratory tract of apparently healthy chickens.
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    edition, Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief), pp. 857-866.
  2. W.M. Janda, R. Mutters, 2006. Pasteurella, Mannheimia, Actinobacillus, Eikenella, Kingella, Capnocytophaga, and other
    miscellaneous Gram-negative rods. In: Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections, 10th edition, Vol. 2, Bacteriology,
    Edward Arnold Ltd.
  3. J. G. Holt et al., 1994. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods. Subgroup 3. Family Pasteurellaceae. In: Begey’s Manual of
    Determinative Bacteriology, 9th-edition, Williams & Wilkins, pp 194-196.
Positive results for nitrates reduction, alkaline phosphatase, ONPG, acid production
from: mannitol, D(-) fructose, D(+) glucose (without gas), D(+) galactose, D(+)
mannose, sucrose & lactose.

Oxidase activity is variable.

Negative results for catalase, citrate (Simmons), gelatinase, H
2S production (TSI), Voges-Proskauer test, alpha-glucosidase, urease,
arginine dehydrolase, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, indole production, acid production from: glycerol, xylitol, L(+)
arabinose,  D(-)arabinose, D(+)xylose, dulcitol, meso-inositol, D(-) sorbitol,  L(-) fucose, L(+) rhamnose, L(-) sorbose, cellobiose,
maltose, D(+) melibiose, trehalose, raffinose, dextrin, inulin, esculin & salicin.
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