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Bacteria =>Firmicutes =>Bacilli =>Bacillales => Planococcaceae => Sporosarcina => Sporosarcina pasteurii Yoon et al.2001
(Miquel 1889)
Historical synonyms: Bacillus pasteurii (Miquel) Chester 1898, Urobacillus pasteurii Miquel 1889, Bacillus probates Vihoever
1913.
(Miquel 1889)
Historical synonyms: Bacillus pasteurii (Miquel) Chester 1898, Urobacillus pasteurii Miquel 1889, Bacillus probates Vihoever
1913.
-1.3-4.0/0.5-1.2 µm
-Gram-positive but easily decolorized, motile
-spores: spherical or slightly oval, 0,8-1,3 µm in diameter, subterminal or terminal, usually swelling the sporangia
-Gram-positive but easily decolorized, motile
-spores: spherical or slightly oval, 0,8-1,3 µm in diameter, subterminal or terminal, usually swelling the sporangia
Maximum temperature, 30-45'C; minimum temperature, 5-15'C. Aerobic.
Colonies on agar not distinctive; circular or glossy; size & opacity vary on different
media
Liquid media turbid; deposit slimy
Alkaline media (optimum pH 9) containing NH3 (optimum 1% NH4Cl) are required
A defined medium contains casein hydrolysate at pH 9, ammonia, thiamine, biotin
and nicotinic acid.
Colonies on agar not distinctive; circular or glossy; size & opacity vary on different
media
Liquid media turbid; deposit slimy
Alkaline media (optimum pH 9) containing NH3 (optimum 1% NH4Cl) are required
A defined medium contains casein hydrolysate at pH 9, ammonia, thiamine, biotin
and nicotinic acid.
Isolated from soil, water, sewage and incrustations on urinals.
None.
- Buchanan R.E., Gibbons N.E., Cowan S.T., Holt J.G., Liston J., Murray R.G.E., Niven C.F., Ravin A.W., Stanier R.W. ( 1974) –
Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eight Edition, The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore. - Bîlbîie V., Pozsgi N., 1985, Bacteriologie Medicală, vol.ll, Ed. Medicală, Bucureşti.
- Logan N.A. 2005.Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, and other aerobic endospore-forming bacteria.In: Boriello S.P., Murray P.
R., Funke G. (Editors), Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology & Microbial Infections. Bacteriology, vol.2, pag.922-952. - Yoon J.H., Lee K.C., Weiss N., Kho Y.H., Kang K.H. & Park Y.H.: Sporosarcina aquimarina sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from
seawater in Korea, and transfer of Bacillus globisporus (Larkin and Stokes 1967), Bacillus psychrophilus (Nakamura 1984)
and Bacillus pasteurii (Chester 1898) to the genus Sporosarcina as Sporosarcina globispora comb. nov., Sporosarcina
psychrophila comb. nov. and Sporosarcina pasteurii comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Sporosarcina. Int. J.
Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2001, 51, 1079-1086.
Acid from glucose -/weak, mannitol -,arabinose -, xilose -
Starch hydrolysis -
Reduction of nitrate to nitrite d
Decomposition of casein d
Voges-Proskauer +
Resistance to lysozyme d
Indole –
Gelatin liquefaction d
Starch hydrolysis -
Reduction of nitrate to nitrite d
Decomposition of casein d
Voges-Proskauer +
Resistance to lysozyme d
Indole –
Gelatin liquefaction d
(c) Costin Stoica
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