Ochrobactrum

Ochrobactrum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rhizobiales
Family: Brucellaceae
Genus: Ochrobactrum
Holmes et al. 1988[1]
Type species
Ochrobactrum anthropi[1]
Species

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Ochrobactrum is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the Brucellaceae. The genus has been described by Holmes in 1988 and Ochrobactrum anthropi was proposed as the type species of the genus.[2] Further work led to the recognition of 18 other species:

The Ochrobactrum strains are all Gram-negative, short rods, straight or slightly curved with one end flame-shaped. The cells are about 0.6-1.2 in length. They are not spore forming, strictly aerobic and not fermentative.

The genomes of most Ochrobactrum species are complex with two independent circular chromosomes often associated with plasmids.

References

  1. 1 2 LPSN bacterio.net
  2. Holmes, B. et al., Ochrobactrum anthropi gen. nov., sp. nov. from human clinical specimens and previously known as Group Vd. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 38, 408, 1988.
    • Teyssier C. and Jumas-Bilak E. Ochrobactrum. in molecular detection of bacterial pathogens. Edited by Dongyou Liu. Taylor's and Fancis. 2010
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Parte, A.C. "Ochrobactrum". www.bacterio.net.


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