| Species/Subspecies:
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Bacteroides fragilis |
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| Etymology:
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Genus name: rod-shaped
Species epithet: fragile (has very fragile colonies under certain conditions) |
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| Significance: | [Important]
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| Taxonomy:
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| Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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| Bacteroidetes | Bacteroidia | Bacteroidales | Bacteroidaceae | Bacteroides |
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| Type Strain:
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ATCC 25285 = CCUG 4856 = NCTC 9343 |
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| Macromorphology (smell):
| Small, circular and transluscent colonies (1-3 mm in diameter). Can in rare cases give hemolysis on blood agar. |
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| Micromorphology:
| Rod shaped and nonmotile cells (0.6 x 1.5-4.5 µm), which appear singly or in pairs. Have rounded ends. |
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| Gram +/Gram -: | G- |
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| Metabolism:
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anaerobic |
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| Catalase/Oxidase: | +/? |
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| Other Enzymes:
| Tryptophanase - |
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| Fermentation of carbohydrates:
| Arabinose -, glucose +, lactose +, maltoe +, rhamnose -, salicin -, sucose +, trehalose - |
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| Spec. Char.:
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| Hosts:
| Cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, cats, dogs, humans |
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| Disease (Swedish): | Abscesser i olika organ, diarré |
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| Disease (English): | Abscesses in different organs, diarrhea |
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| Clinical Picture:
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| Genome Sequence:
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| Acc-no | Strain | Size (bp) | Genome |
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| NC_003228 | ATCC 25285 = NCTC 9343 | 5 205 140 | |
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| 16S rRNA Seq.:
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| Acc-no | Strain | Number of NT | Operon |
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| X83935 | (T) | 1436 | 6 |
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| Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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