| Dermatophilus congolensis |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia |
| Compare | Dermatophilus congolensis, Frankia alni, Geodermatophilus |
| Contrast | Nocardioform Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia , Actinoplanetes , Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes, Thermomonospora & Friends ,Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Dermatophilus congolensis |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive Not acid fast |
| Morphology | Aerial mycelium develops in atmospheres containing added CO2. Substrate mycelium consists of long tapering filaments, branching laterally at right angles; septa formed in transverse and in horizontal and vertical longitudinal planes, giving rise to up to eight parallel rows of coccoid cells (spores), |
| Motility | spores are motile by a tuft of flagella.. |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Dermatophilus congolensis |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | Aerobic and facultatively anaerobic Nonfermentative |
| pH | |
| Temperature | optimum about 37`C. |
| Requirements | Growth reported only on complex media; minimum nutritional requirements unknown |
| Products | acid is produced from certain carbohydrates.. |
| Enzymes | Catalase positive |
| Unique features | Walls contain meso-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP); madurose is present in whole-cell hydrolysates. Polar lipids include phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, and phosphatidylinositol. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | Parasitic on mammals, especially the domestic herbivores |
| Pathogenicity | pathology usually limited to exudative dermatitis, which may, however, be severe and life-threatening; on rare occasions causes subcutaneous abscesses and lymph node granulomas |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Dermatophilus congolensis |
| G+C Mol % | 57-59 (Tm) |
| Reference | Dermatophilus congolensis |
| First citation | Van Saceghem, R.1915 Dermaytose contagieuses (Impetigo contagieux). Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot. 8: 354-359 |
| Emended | Gordon,M.A. 1964. The genus Dermatophilus J. Bacteriol 88: 509-522 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2409 M. A. Gordon |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 651 |
| References |