Biology:Brachybacterium

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Brachybacterium
Scientific classification e
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Dermabacteraceae
Genus: Brachybacterium
Collins et al. 1988[1]
Type species
Brachybacterium faecium
Collins et al. 1988
Species

See text.

Brachybacterium is a genus of Gram positive, nonmotile bacteria. The cells are coccoid during the stationary phase, and irregular rods during the exponential phase. The genus name comes from Greek word brachy, meaning short, and Latin bacterium, meaning rods, referencing the short rods noted during the exponential phase.[1]

The type species of the genus, Brachybacterium faecium, was first isolated from poultry deep litter in 1966 along with several other species.[2] Speciation of the strains was performed in 1975, but three of the strains did not cluster with any known taxon.[3] In 1988, further work was performed on the previously unclassified organisms, and the current genus was proposed.[1] Brachybacteria have been isolated from a stool sample of a healthy three-year-old girl,[4] garden soil,[5] Beaufort cheese, medieval wall paintings, a mouse liver, roots, salt fermented seafood, oil-contaminated coastal sand, sediment samples, and seawater.[6][7] A strain of Brachybacterium has been indicated as the cause of bloodborne infection in an 83 year-old man.[8]

Species

Brachybacterium comprises the following species:[9]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Brachybacterium faecium gen. nov., sp. nov., a coryneform bacterium from poultry deep litter". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 38: 45–48. 1988. doi:10.1099/00207713-38-1-45. 
  2. Schefferle HE. (1966). "Coryneform bacteria in poultry deep litter". J. Appl. Bacteriol. 29 (1): 147–160. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.1966.tb03462.x. 
  3. Jones D. (1975). "A numerical taxonomic study of coryneform and related bacteria". J. Gen. Microbiol. 87 (1): 8752–96. doi:10.1099/00221287-87-1-52. PMID 805825. 
  4. ""Khelaifiella massiliensis", "Niameybacter massiliensis", "Brachybacterium massiliense", "Enterobacter timonensis", "Massilibacillus massiliensis", new bacterial species and genera isolated from the gut microbiota of healthy infants". New Microbes and New Infections 19 (19): 1–7. 2017. doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2017.02.002. PMID 28652919. 
  5. "Brachybacterium horti sp. nov., isolated from garden soil". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 66 (1): 189–95. 2016. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000696. PMID 26476895. 
  6. "Brachybacterium aquaticum sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from seawater". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 66 (11): 4705–10. 2016. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001414. PMID 27514821. .
  7. "Brachybacterium saurashtrense sp. nov., a halotolerant root-associated bacterium with plant growth-promoting potential". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 61 (12): 2799–2804. 2011. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.023176-0. PMID 21216918. 
  8. Tamai, Kiyoko; Akashi, Yusaku; Yoshimoto, Yuta; Yaguchi, Yuji; Takeuchi, Yosuke; Shiigai, Masanari; Igarashi, Jun; Hirose, Yumi et al. (December 2018). "First case of a bloodstream infection caused by the genus Brachybacterium". Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy 24 (12): 998–1003. doi:10.1016/j.jiac.2018.06.005. PMID 30007866. 
  9. "Brachybacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/brachybacterium. 

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