Tsukamurella

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Tsukamurella
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetes
Order: Mycobacteriales
Family: Tsukamurellaceae
Rainey et al. 1997 [1]
Genus: Tsukamurella
Collins et al. 1988 [2]
Type species
Tsukamurella paurometabola
corrig. (Steinhaus 1941) Collins et al. 1988
Species [3]
A Tsukamurella pseudospumae disk Tsukamurella pseudospumae N1176.jpg
A Tsukamurella pseudospumae disk

Tsukamurella is a Gram-positive, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and obligate aerobic bacterial genus from the family of Tsukamurellaceae. [3] [4] [5] Most of the strains of Tsukamurella degrade starch. [6] Some Tsukamurella species can cause infections in humans. [7] [8]

References

  1. Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL (1997). "Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47 (2): 479–491. doi: 10.1099/00207713-47-2-479 .
  2. Collins MD, Smida J, Dorsch M, Stackebrandt E (1988). "Tsukamurella gen. nov. harboring Corynebacterium paurometabolum and Rhodococcus aurantiacus". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 38 (4): 385–391. doi: 10.1099/00207713-38-4-385 .
  3. 1 2 Parte, A.C. "Tsukamurella". LPSN .
  4. "Tsukamurella". www.uniprot.org.
  5. Goodfellow, Michael; Kumar, Yashawant (1 January 2015). "Tsukamurella". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. pp. 1–16. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00038. ISBN   9781118960608.
  6. George M., Garrity (2012). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Science + Business Media. ISBN   978-0-387-68233-4.
  7. Organization, World Health (2004). Guidelines for drinking-water quality (3rd ed.). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN   92-4-154638-7.
  8. Connie R., Mahon; Donald C., Lehman; George, Manuselis Jr. (2014). Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology. Elsevier Health Sciences. ISBN   978-0-323-29261-0.

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