Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria), Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Pasteurellales, Family Pasteurellaceae, Genus
Nicoletella, Nicoletella semolina Kuhnert et al. 2005, type species of the genus.
Gram-negative pleomorphic rods. Non-motile.
Colonies are gray, odorless, and nonhemolytic. Capnophilic, and optimal growth
conditions are on chocolate agar in a 5% CO2 atmosphere, on which after 24 to 48 h
incubation it forms typical colonies of 0.5-2 mm in diameter which can be moved
around on the plate like a semolina particle without losing their shape. No growth on
MacConkey agar. X and V factors are not required.
Isolated from tracheal-bronchial washes of horses.
Isolated from horses with chronic cough and in a few cases with pneumonia and/or nasal discharge.
- Kuhnert P, Korczak B, Falsen E, Straub R, Hoops A, Boerlin P, Frey J, Mutters R. Nicoletella semolina gen. nov., sp. nov., a new
member of Pasteurellaceae isolated from horses with airway disease. J Clin Microbiol 2004; 42:5542-5548.
- BacDive in 2022: the knowledge base for standardized bacterial and archaeal data. Lorenz Christian Reimer, Joaquim Sardà
Carbasse, Julia Koblitz, Christian Ebeling, Adam Podstawka, Jorg Overmann. Nucleic Acids Research; database issue 2022.
Positive results for catalase, nitrate reduction, oxidase, urease, acid production from: glucose, fructose, and saccharose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, citrate utilization, gelatinase, gamma glutamyltransferase, H2S production, indole production,
lipase, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, proline amidase, starch hydrolysis, acid production from: L-arabinose, dulcitol,
aesculin, D-galactose, m-inositol, D-lactose, D-mannose, D-sorbitol, raffinose,L-rhamnose, salicin, L-sorbose and D-xylose.
Variable results for alkaline phosphatase beta-galactosidase, and acid production from maltose, mannitol and trehalose.
(c) Costin Stoica