Cross Index Brachybacterium faecium
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare Acetobacterium Acetogenium kivui, Actinomyces Aeromicrobium erythreum Agromyces ramosus Arachnia propionica, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, Arthrobacter, Aureobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Brachybacterium faecium, Brevibacterium, Butyrivibrio, Caseobacter polymorphus, Cellulomonas ,Clavibacter, Coriobacterium glomerans, Corynebacterium, Curtobacterium, Dermobacter hominus, Eubacterium, Exigouibacterium aurantiacum, Falcivibrio, Gardnerella, Jonsia denitrificans, Lachnospira multiparus, Microbacterium, Mobiluncus, Pimelobacter, Proprionibacterium, Rarobacter faecitabidus , Rothia dentocariosa, Rubrobacter radiotolerans, Sphaerobacter thermophilus , Terrabacter tumescens, Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, Thermoanaerobium brockii

Very similar to Brevibacterium

Contrast Archaea
Subset  

 

Morphology Brachybacterium faecium
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive, not acid fast
Morphology Irregularly shaped slender rods in young cultures that segement into cocci in old stationary phase cultures
Motility non motile
Specialized structures no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface colonies white or pale yellow
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Brachybacterium faecium
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotropic with respiratory metabolism
Oxygen aerobe
pH  
Temperature optimum 25-30 oC
Requirements  
Products may reduce nitrates, acid from glucose and some other carbohydrates
Enzymes catalase positive, oxidase negative
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat isolated from poultry litter
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Brachybacterium faecium
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Reference Brachybacterium faecium
First citation Collins at al 1988 IJSB 38:45-48
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 574
References