Cross Index Proprionibacterium
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare AAcetobacterium 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 Proprionibacterium
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive
Morphology pleomorphic rods but cells may be coccoid, bifid or even branched and may form "chinese characters
Motility Nonmotile
Specialized structures Nonsporing
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Growth Parameters Proprionibacterium
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism Chemoorganotrophs
Oxygen are anaerobic to aerotolerant
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Products fermentation products include large amounts of propionic and acetic acids
Enzymes generally catalase positive
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Genome Proprionibacterium
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Reference Proprionibacterium
First citation Orla-Jensen,O. 1909. Die Hauptlinien des naturlichen Bakterien-systems. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 2, 22:305-346
The Prokaryotes P
Bergey's Systematatic p 1346 C. S. Cummins and J. L. Johnson
Bergey's Determinative p 580
References