Cross Index Microbacterium
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 Microbacterium
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive
Morphology irregular rods with some coccoid forms In young cultures small slender irregular rods 0.4-0.8 microns by 1-4 microns or more in length, some of the rods are arranged at an angle to each other to give V formations. In older cultures, the rods are shorter and a proportion may be coccoid
Motility may or may not be motile
Specialized structures a marked rod-coccus growth cycle does not occur
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Growth Parameters Microbacterium
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism  
Oxygen strict aerobe, a weak anaerobic growth may occur. Metabolism is mainly respiratory but may be fermentative
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Requirements  
Products Acid is produced from glucose and some other sugars in peptone media
Enzymes produces catalase
Unique features does not contain mycolic acids. by. The cell wall peptidoglycan contains lysine as the diamino acid. The major isoprenoid quinones are unsaturatedmenaquinones with 11 and 12 isoprene units.
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Genome Microbacterium
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Reference Microbacterium
First citation Orla-Jensen,S. (1919) The lactic acid bacteria Copenhagen: Host and Son
The Prokaryotes P
Bergey's Systematatic p 1320 M.D. Collins and R. M. Keddie
Bergey's Determinative p 579
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