| Morphology | Oerskovia |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive with part of the thallus becoming Gram-negative when grown anaerobically. |
| Morphology | Extensively branching vegetative hyphae, about 0.5 um in diameter, growing on the surface of and penetrating into agar media, breaking up into rod-shaped, motile, flagellate elements. Growth appears coryneform to bacteroid in smears. Rods monotrichous when small and peritrichous when long No aerial mycelium formed |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Oerskovia |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | Glucose metabolized both oxidatively and fermentatively |
| pH | |
| Temperature | Mesophilic |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | .. Cell wall of type VI (lysine as principal diamino acid) plus major amounts of galactose; aspartic acid may be absent. Phospholipids of type PV with phospholipid fatty acids of type l. Menaquinones of MK- 9(H4) type. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Found in soil, decaying plant materials, brewery sewage (Kaneko et al. 1969), aluminum hydroxide gels, and clinical specimens, including blood samples. |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Oerskovia |
| G+C Mol % | 70.52-75 (Tm) |
| (Sukapure et al 1970). |
| Reference | Oerskovia |
| First citation | Prauser, H., M.P. Lechevalier and H.A. Lechevalier (1970) Description of Oerskovia gen. n. to harbour Orshov's motile Nocardia. Appl Microbiol 19:534 |
| Emended | Lechevalier, M. P. (1972) Description of a new species of Oerskovia xanthineolytica and emendation of Oerskovia Prauser et al IJSB 22:260-264 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1489 H. A. Lechevalier and M. P. Lechevalier |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 632 |
| References |