| Cross Index | Camplylobacter |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram negative Vibriods |
| Compare | Alteromonas, Aquaspirillum, Azospirillum , Bdellovibrio, Camplylobacter ,Cellvibrio mixtus , Halovibrio variabilis , Helicobacter, Herbaspirillum seropedicae, Marinomonas, Micavibrio admirandus, Oceanospirillum, Spirillum, "Sporospirillum", Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus ,Wolinella |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Camplylobacter |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | Slender, spirally curved rods, 0.2-0.5 um wide and 0.5 to 5 um long. The rods may have one or more spirals and can be as long as 8 um. They also appear S shaped and gull-winged when two cells form short chains. Nonsporeforming. Cells in old cultures may form spherical or coccoid bodies |
| Motility | Motile with a characteristic corkscrew-like motion by means of a single polar flagellum at one or both ends of the cell. The flagella may be 2 to 3 times the length of the cells |
| Specialized structures | Cells have a multilaminar polar membrane at both ends of the cell that is located under the cytoplasmic membrane.. |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Camplylobacter |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | Microaerophilic, with a respiratory type of metabolism. Require an oxygen concentration of between 3 and 15% and a carbon dioxide concentration of 3-5%. Occasionally a few strains may grow slightly under aerobic conditions (20% O2). Some species can grow under anaerobic conditions with fumarate, formate and fumarate, or oxygen and fumarate in the medium. |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requires | Carbohydrates are neither fermented nor oxidized. No acid or neutral end products produced. Does not require serum or blood for growth. Energy is obtained from amino acids or tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates, not carbohydrates. Chemo-organotrophs. Gelatin and urea are not hydrolyzed. Methyl red- and Voges Proskauer-negative. No lipase activity. Pigments are not produced. |
| Produces | Oxidase-positive. Nitrate reduced. |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Found in the reproductive organs, intestinal tract and oral cavity of man and animals |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | Some species are pathogenic for man and animals. |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Camplylobacter |
| G+C Mol % | 30-38 |
| Reference | Camplylobacter |
| First citation | Sebald ,M.and M.Veron (1963) Teneur en bases de l'ADN et classification des vibrions. Ann Inst. Pasteur (Paris) 105:897-910 |
| The Prokaryotes | P |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 111 R.M. Smibert |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 41 |
| References |