| Cross Index | Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Regular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods |
| Compare | Brochothrix, Carnobacterium, Caryophanon, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, Kurthia, Lactobacillus, Listeria, Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Strongly Gram positive |
| Morphology | short rods |
| Motility | non motile |
| Specialized structures | no endospores no capsules |
| Division | slow growing bacterium |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | aerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | The optimum temperature for growth is 15-18 C and no growth occurs at 37 C |
| Requirements | Cysteine is required for growth and growth is enhanced by the addition of blood or serum to media |
| Products | No acid is produced from sugars |
| Enzymes | Catalase positive |
| Unique features | No mycolic acids are present. The diamino acid of the peptidoglycan is lysine.. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | R salmoniarum has only been isolated from trout salmon and char |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | R salmoniarum is an obligate pathogen of salmonid fish that occurs intracellularly and produces a slow developing chronic infection characterized by a gray- white enlarge necrotic abcesses primarily in the kidney. |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| G+C Mol % | 53 |
| Reference | Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| First citation | Sanders,J.E. and J.L.Fryer (1980) Renibacterium salmoninarum gen. Nov., sp. Nov., the causitive agent of bacterial kidney disease in salmonid fishes. IJSB 30: 496-502 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1253 J.E. Sanders and J. L. Fryer |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 567 |
| References |