| Species/Subspecies: | Pseudomonas anguilliseptica | ||||||||
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| Category: | Motile | ||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: false unit Species epithet: refers do diseased eels | ||||||||
| Significance: | [Of minor importance] | ||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Pseudomonadales Family Pseudomonadaceae Genus Pseudomonas |
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| Type Strain: | ATCC 33660 = CCUG 35503. | ||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | Small greyish colonies. | ||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Rod-shaped (0.4 x 2.0 µm) and motile with monotrichous flagella. | ||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||
| Metabolism: | Aerobic | ||||||||
| Catalase/Oxidase: | +/+ | ||||||||
| Other Enzymes: | Urease - | ||||||||
| Fermentation of carbohydrates: | D-glucose - lactose - maltose - L-rhamnose - sucrose - L-arabinose - cellobiose ? D-mannitol - salicin - trehalose ? glycerol - inulin ? raffinose - D-sorbitol ? starch - |
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| Disease: | Winter disease. |
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| Hosts: | Salmonid fishes and cultured eels. | ||||||||
| Clinical Picture: | Ulceration and bleeding in the skin and internal bleedings, etc. | ||||||||
| Diagnostics: | P. anguilliseptica can be identified by serological methods and/or MALDI-TOF. | ||||||||
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About 200 species have been described within genus Pseudomonas. Many of these species can be isolated from the environment and some of them are pathogenic. They are related to members within genus Moraxella and Acinetobacter. Many earlier described species within genus Pseudomonas have been transferred genus Burkholderia. | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2018-09-27 |
