Skip to content
1887

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY logo International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volume 48, Issue 3

sp. nov., a new member of the family Pohl (1979) 1981 isolated from porpoises () Free

Abstract

Phenotypic and phylogenetic studies were performed on a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium isolated from three porpoises. Biochemical and physiological studies indicated that the bacterium was related to the family . Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing studies confirmed these findings and demonstrated that the bacterium represents a hitherto unknown subline. The nearest phylogenetic relative of the unknown bacterium was , an organism also originating from sea mammals, although a sequence divergence of 3% demonstrated that the newly isolated bacterium is a distinct species. On the basis of the results of the phylogenetic analysis and phenotypic criteria, it is proposed that the bacterium should be classified as a new species, sp. nov. The type strain of sp. nov. is NCTC 12922(= M2000/95/1).

  • Published Online:
Keyword(s): Actinobacillus scotiae , Pasteurellaceae and porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
© Society for General Microbiology, 1998
Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-48-3-929
1998-07-01
2025-04-19
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/ijsem/48/3/ijs-48-3-929.html?itemId=/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-48-3-929&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

  1. Devereux J., Haeberli P., Smithies O. 1984; A comprehensive set of sequence analysis programs for the VAX. Nucleic Acids Res 12:387–395
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Dewhirst F. E., Paster B. J., Olsen I., Fraser G. J. 1992; Phylogeny of 54 representative strains of species in the family Pasteurellaceae as determined by comparison of 16S rRNA sequences. J Bacteriol 174:2002–2013
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Dewhirst F. E., Paster B. J., Olsen I., Fraser G. J. 1993; Phylogeny of the Pasteurellaceae determined by comparison of 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid sequences. Zentbl Bakteriol 219:35–44
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Felsenstein J. 1989; phylip - phylogeny interference package (version 3.2). Cladistics 5:164–166
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Foster G., Ross H. M., Malnick H., Willems A., Garcia P., Reid R. J., Collins M. D. 1996; Actinobacillus delphinicola sp. nov., a new member of the family Pasteurellaceae Pohl (1979) 1981 isolated from sea mammals. Int J Syst Bacteriol 46:648–652
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Kuiken T., Hartmann M. G. 1991; Cetacean pathology: dissection techniques and tissue sampling. ECS NewsletterNo. 17 special issue
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Meller K., Kilian M. 1990; V factor-dependent members of the family Pasteurellaceae in the porcine upper respiratory tract. J Clin Microbiol 28:2711–2716
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Pohl S. 1981; DNA relatedness among members of Haemophilus, Pasteurella and Actinobacillus. In Haemophilus, Pasteurella and Actinobacillus pp. 246–253 Edited by Kilian M., Frederiksen W., Biberstein E. L. London: Academic Press;
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Sneath P. H. A., Stevens M. 1990; Actinobacillus rossii sp. nov., Actinobacillus seminis sp. nov., nom. rev., Pasteurella bettii sp. nov., Pasteurella lymphangitidis sp. nov., Pasteurella mairi sp. nov. and Pasteurella trehalosi sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 40:148–153
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Stackebrandt E., Goebel B. M. 1994; Taxonomic note: a place for DNA-DNA reassociation and 16S rRNA sequence analysis in the present species definition in bacteriology. Int J Syst Bacteriol 44:846–849
     [Google Scholar]
/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-48-3-929
Loading
Actinobacillus scotiae sp. nov., a new member of the family Pasteurellaceae Pohl (1979) 1981 isolated from porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 48, 929 (1998); https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-3-929
/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-48-3-929
/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-48-3-929
Loading

Data & Media loading...

Most cited Most Cited RSS feed

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error