Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Proteobacteria => Gammaproteobacteria => Pasteurellales => Pasteurellaceae => Pasteurella => Pasteurella dagmatis Mutters,
Ihm, Pohl, Frederiksen and Mannheim 1985
Non-motile, Gram-negative, coccoid or short rods.
Non-hemolytic, smooth and grayish white colonies . V-factor independent growth,
optimum temperature 36 ºC. Do not grow on MacConkey agar.
Is a part of the oral flora of dogs and cats and is associated with human local infections
Have been isolated from dogs , cats and from human local infections resulting from animal bites and from pneumonia, septicaemia
& endocarditis.
- R. Mutters, H. Christensen, M. Bisgaard, 2004.Genus I.Pasteurella . In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second
edition,Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief), pp. 857-866.
- W.M. Janda, R. Mutters , 2006. Pasteurella, Mannheimia, Actinobacillus, Eikenella, Kingella, Capnocytophaga, and other
miscellaneous Gram-negative rods. In: Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections, 10 edition, Vol. 2,
Bacteriology, Edward Arnold Ltd.
- J. G.Holt et al., 1994.Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9-edition, Williams & Wilkins.
Nitrates reduction, oxidase, alkaline phosphatase, catalase, urease, indole, α-
glucosidase (PNPG), D(+) glucose (acid), sucrose, dextrin, D(-) fructose, D(+)
galactose, -D(+) mannose & maltose positive.
Gelatinase, H2S (TSI), Voges-Proskauer, arginine dehydrolase, lysine decarboxylase,
ornithine decarboxylase, xylitol, L(+) arabinose, D(+) xylose, dulcitol, meso-inositol,
mannitol, D(-) sorbitol, gas from D(+) glucose, L(+) rhamnose, L(-) sorbose,
cellobiose, D(+) melibiose, inulin, esculin & salicin negative.
Glycerol, D(-)arabinose, trehalose, L(-) fucose, raffinose, lactose & ONPG variable.
(c) Costin Stoica