Vibrio aestuarianus
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Proteobacteria => Gammaproteobacteria => Vibrionales => Vibrionaceae => Vibrio =>Vibrio aestuarianus  Tison and Seidler 1983.
On the basis of several distinct phenotypic characteristics, it is proposed to establish two subspecies within the V. aestuarianus spp.
group,
V. aestuarianus subsp. aestuarianus and V. aestuarianus subsp. francensis.

Synonym: Vibrio aestuarii  Tison and Seidler1983.
Gram negative, straight  or curved rods, 0.5 x 1.5-2.0 µm, motile by a single polar
flagellum.
Can grow in nutrient broth with: 1% & 6% NaCl. No growth in 0%,  8%, 10% & 12%
NaCl. Optimal growth at  20 -25 °C. No growth at 4 °C or 42 °C.
Facultative anaerobe. Grows without swarming on Trypticase soy, blood,
thiosulfate-citrate- bile salts-sucrose, and MacConkey agars containing 0.5% NaCl.
No growth is observed in media lacking NaCl. Beta-hemolitic on sheep blood agar.
Isolated from estuary water, shellfish, crabs & oysters of the coast of Oregon, USA. Sensible to O/129 vibriostatic agent (10 & 150 µg).
V. aestuarianus subsp. francensis  is a possible oysters pathogen. Eleven strains were isolated from the hemolymph of live and
moribund oysters
(Crassostrea gigas) in France.
  1. J.J. Farmer, M. Janda, 2004.Family I. Vibrionaceae . In:  Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second edition,Vol two,
    part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief),   pp. 491-546.
  2. Tison, David L., Seidler, Ramon J. Vibrio aestuarianus: a New Species from Estuarine Waters and Shellfish. Int J Syst
    Bacteriol 1983 33: 699-702.
  3. Garnier M., Labreuche Y., Nicolas J.-L.  Molecular and phenotypic characterization of Vibrio aestuarianus subsp. francensis
    subsp. nov., a pathogen of the oyster Crassostrea gigas (2008) Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 31 (5), pp. 358-365.  
The characters that differentiate subsp. francensis from subsp. aestuarianus are the growth failure at 35 °C and  utilization failure of
L-serine, alpha-cyclodextrin, D-mannitol, alpha-glycyl-L-aspartic acid, L-threonine and glucose-1-phosphate.

Nitrate reduced to nitrite, oxidase, indole (Heart Infusion Broth, 1%NaCl), citrate, arginine (1%NaCl), gelatin hydrolysis (1%NaCl, 22

°
C), acid from D-glucose, glycerol cellobiose, D-galactose, maltose, D-mannitol, D-mannose, sucrose & trehalose are positive.

Voges-Proskauer (1%NaCl), H
2S, ornithine (1%NaCl), gas from D-glucose, acid from D-adonitol, L-arabinose, dulcitol, myo-inositol,
melibiose, raffinose, L-rhamnose, salicin, D-sorbitol & D-xylose.

Lysine (1%NaCl), acid from D-arabitol & lactose are variable.
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