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The description of strains of anaerobic ‘corroding’ organisms isolated from soft tissue infections in cats and dogs
Author(s) -
Love Daria N.,
Jones R.F.,
Bailey Marilyn
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1982.tb05066.x
Subject(s) - microbiology and biotechnology , flagellum , biology , staining , cats , strain (injury) , bacteria , urea , phosphotungstic acid , vibrio , anaerobic exercise , biochemistry , anatomy , genetics , computer science , embedded system , catalysis , physiology
Thirty‐eight strains of Gram negative anaerobic ‘corroding’ rods were isolated from subcutaneous abscesses and pyothorax in cats and dogs. These organisms all exhibited the colony morphology and biochemical properties of organisms described as Bacteroides ureolyticus (Jackson & Goodman 1978) except that they did not hydrolyse urea and they had a guanine plus cytosine ratio of 39–44 mol%. As described for Bact. ureolyticus , 11 of the strains were non‐motile. The remaining 27 strains were motile and exhibited a single polar flagellum when examined by negative staining with phosphotungstic acid in an electron microscope. The motile organisms resembled the so‐called ‘anaerobic vibrios’ or Vibrio succinogenes except that these organisms are curved do not liquefy gelatin and are thought by some to have a G + C ratio of 49 mol%. The non‐motile strains fitted no group described previously.