Tag: GNB
Yersinia
HISTORY:
The genus Yersinia, named after the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin who first isolated in 1894 the plague bacillus, was proposed in 1944 and formalized in...
Vibrio
DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATION:
The family Vibrionaceae:
It includes gram-negative bacilli, mobile or mixed with polar cilia, optional aero-anaerobic growing on ordinary media, reducing nitrate to nitrite,...
Kingella
This genus has been described by Henriksen and Bovre in 1976. Appearing in pairs or short chains, that Gram-negative bacilli tend to resist fading.
Still,...
Pseudomonas genus
I - GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS:
A - Definition:
Gram-negative bacilli, by a polar mobile ciliature rarely still, non-spore forming.
Chemo-organotrophic bacteria with a strictly respiratory metabolism with terminal...
General information on Clostridium
Clostridium are Gram-positive spore forming bacilli, anaerobes.
I - CLASSIFICATION:
Among the bacilli and gram-positive cocci forming endospores, there are different kinds:
Bacilli Cocri
Aerobic Bacillus Sporosarcina
Sporolactobacillus
Oscilhspira
Strict anaerobes...
Francisella Tularensis
Francisella tularensis was isolated after the occurrence of a new disease, pseudo-plague squirrel, observed in Tulare County, California in 1911. In 1921, Francis, American...
Enterobacteriaceae
I - DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION:
The Enterobacteriaceae family consists of bacterial genera that are assembled because of their common bacteriological characters.
- These are Gram-negative bacilli...
Clostridium Tetani
Clostridium tetani, formerly known as bacillus Nicolaier, is a gram-positive bacillus spore forming, anaerobic strict, which releases a neurotropic exotoxin entramant a formidable poisoning:...
Campylobacter
HISTORY:
In 1913 a mobile bacillus Vibrio-like, was made responsible for the epizootic bovine abortions tasks. This bacillus was designated as Vibrio fetus by Smith...
Bordetella
HISTORY:
In 1900 Bordet described a Gram-negative bacilli such as whooping cough agent.
In 1906 Bordet and Gengou have managed to grow the bacillus on an...
