Cross Index Dermobacter hominus
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
Contrast Archaea
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Morphology Dermobacter hominus
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive, not acid fast
Morphology Short rods (0.5-0.6 x 1.0-2.0 um)
Motility non motile
Specialized structures no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface samll creamy white, low convex xolonies on nutrient agar
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Dermobacter hominus
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen facultatively anaerobic
pH  
Temperature grow at 37 oC but not at 10 oC and some strains grow at 45 oC
Requirements  
Products fermentative metabolism yielding acid from glucose and some other carbohydrates, starch hydrolysed, casein and esculin utilized. hippurate not used, nitrate not reduced Voges Proskauer negative Gelatin is liquified, growth with 5% NaCl Contains meso diaminopimelic acid in the cell wall and contains menaquinone MK-9
Enzymes catalase positive, oxidase negative
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat isolated from human skin
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Dermobacter hominus
G+C Mol % 62
   

 

Reference Dermobacter hominus
First citation Jones and Collins 1988 FEMS Microbiol Lett 51: 51-56
Jones and Collins 1989 IJSB 39: 93-94
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 576
References