Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus
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Taxonomy
Morphology
Growth conditions
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Bacteria => Firmicutes => Bacilli => Bacillales => Paenibacillaceae => Paenibacillus => Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus ( Nakamura
1990), Shida et al. 1997
Hystorical synonyms: Bacillus thiaminolyticus Kuno (1951), Bacillus thiaminolyticus (Kuno,1951) Nakamura 1990, Clostridium
thiaminolyticus (Kuno) Kimura and Liao 1953.
Gram variable, 0.6-0.8 / 2.0-3.0 μm, motile bacilli.
Spores: ellipsoidal, subterminal or terminal, swelling the sporangium.
Non-pigmented, smooth, translucent, circular, 1-2 mm diameter colonies.
Maximum temperature, 450C; minimum temperature, 200C
Growth in anaerobic agar
Growth in 5% NaCl d
Not growth in 10% NaCl
Not growth at 5.7 pH.
Isolated from human feces and dead honeybees larvae.
Uncertain pathogenicity. Possible implication in Europeean foulbrood as an associated germ.
- Gordon R.E., Haynes W.C., Pang C.H. (1973) – The genus Bacillus . Agriculture Handbook No. 427, U.S.D.A., Washington D.C.
- 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.
- Euzeby J.P.: Dictionnaire de Bacteriologie Veterinaire.http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/bacdico/pp/panibacillus.html
Similarity with P. alvei.
Decomposes thiamine actively
Catalase +
Acid from glucose +, mannitol d,arabinose d, xilose– , trehalose +, maltose +, D-
galactose+,saccharose+, lactose+,sorbitol d
Hydrolase of starch +
Hydrolase of urea –
Reduction of nitrate to nitrite +
Decomposition of casein +
Decomposition of tyrosine +
Voges-Proskauer –
Resistance to lysozyme +
Use of citrate -
Indole +
LDC –
ODC –
ADH –
(c) Costin Stoica