1. Brackiella oedipodis gen. nov., sp. nov., gram-negative, oxidase-positive rods that cause endocarditis of cotton-topped tamarin (Saguinus oedipus)
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Helga Gilhaus, Henriette Mietke, Anne Willems, W Voigt, Bärbel Burghardt, H R Gelderblom, Rolf Reissbrodt, and W. Beer
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Lipopolysaccharides ,Achromobacter ,Sequence analysis ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Siderophores ,DNA, Ribosomal ,Microbiology ,Brackiella oedipodis ,Bacterial Proteins ,RNA, Ribosomal, 16S ,Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared ,Animals ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,biology ,Myocardium ,Fatty Acids ,Monkey Diseases ,Betaproteobacteria ,Tamarin ,Endocarditis, Bacterial ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Saguinus oedipus ,Bordetella ,Phenotype ,Taylorella ,Alcaligenes ,Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections ,Oxidoreductases ,Saguinus - Abstract
A gram-negative, oxidase-positive, rod-shaped bacterium isolated from the heart of a cotton-topped tamarin was characterized by 16S rDNA sequence analysis, SDS-PAGE of whole-cell proteins, fatty acid analysis and biochemical tests. Outer-membrane proteins, iron-regulated outer-membrane proteins, lipopolysaccharides and siderophore production were studied. On the basis of the results, the organism belongs to the beta-Proteobacteria where it forms a separate line of descent, for which a novel genus and species are proposed, Brackiella oedipodis (LMG 19451T = DSM 13743T = NCIMB 13739T). Nearest phylogenetic neighbours of the new genus are Taylorella, Pelistega, Bordetella, Alcaligenes and Achromobacter.
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- 2002
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