Species/Subspecies: | Bordetella parapertussis | ||||||||
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Category: | Primarily of interest in human medicin | ||||||||
Etymology: | Genus name: named after the Belgian microbiologist Jules Bordet (1870-1961), who first isolated B. pertussis. Species epithet: resembles pertussis (whooping cough). | ||||||||
Significance: | [Of minor importance] | ||||||||
Taxonomy: | Class Betaproteobacteria Order Burkholderiales Family Alcaligenaceae Genus Bordetella |
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Type Strain: | ATCC 15311 = CCUG 413 = NCTC 5952 | ||||||||
Macromorphology (smell): | Small coccoid and nonmotile rods. | ||||||||
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Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||
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Fermentation of carbohydrates: | Bordetella spp. does not ferment carbohydrates. | ||||||||
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Disease: | Pneumonia |
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Hosts: | Lambs | ||||||||
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Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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Eight species have been described within genus Bordetella. The four species, which are described in VetBact, are very closely related. | ||||||||
Updated: | 2020-11-05 |
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New families introduced within the order Enterobacterales![]() The order Enterobacterales (formerly called Enterobacteriales) previously consisted of bacteria with different properties and phylogenetically, these bacteria were far apart. In order for the taxonomy to be more in line with phylogeny, some of these bacteria have, therefore, been sorted into 6 new families. Published 2022-04-13. Read more... |