Cross Index	Bordetella
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci
Compare	Acetobacter, Acidiphilium, Acidomonas methanolica, Acidothermus cellulolyticus, Acidovorax, Acinetobacter, Afipia, Agrobacterium, Agromonas oligotrophica, Alcaligenes, Alteromonas, Aminobacter, Aquaspirillum, Azomonas, Azorhizobium caulinodans, Azotobacter, Bacteroides, Beijerinckia, Bordetella, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Brucella, Chromohalobacter marismortui, Chryseomonas luteola, Comamonas, Cupriavidus necator, Deleya, Derxia gummosa, Ensifer adherans, Erythrobacter longus, Flavobacterium, Flavomonas oryzihabitans, Francisella, Frateuria aurantica, Gluconobacter, Halomonas, Hydrogenophaga, Janthinobacterium lividum, Kingella, Lampropedia hyalina, Legionella, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Marinomonas, Mesophilobacter marinus, Methylobacillus glycogenes, Methylobacterium, Methylococcus, Methylomonas, Methylophaga, Methylophilus, Methylovorus glucosotrophus, Moraxella, Morococcus cerebrosus, Neisseriaceae, Neisseria, Oceanospirillum, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Oligella, Paracoccus, Phenylobacterium immobile, Phyllobacterium, Pseudomonas, Psychrobacter immobilis, Rhizobacter daucus, Rhizobium, Rhizomonas suberifaciens, Rochalimaea, Roseobacter, Rugomonas rubra, Serpens, Sinorhizobium, Sphingobacterium, Taylorella equigenitalis, Thermoleophilum, Thermomicrobium, Thermus, Variovorax paradoxus, Volcaniella eurhalina, Weeksella, Wolinella, Xanthobacter, Xanthomonas, Xyella fastidiosa, Xylophilus ampelinus, Zoogloea ramigera
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Bordetella

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram-negative often bipolar stained
Morphology	Minute coccobacillus, 0.2-0.5 um in diameter and 0.5-2.0 um in length, , and arranged singly or in pairs,more rarely in chains..
Motility	Nonmotile, two species; motile, one species, by peritrichous flagella.
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Colonies on Bordet-Gengou medium are smooth, convex, pearly, glistening, nearly transparent and surrounded by a zone of hemolysis without definite periphery.

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Bordetella

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	Chemoorganotrophic,
Oxygen	Strictly aerobic Metabolism respiratory, never fermentative
pH
Temperature	Optimum, 35-35`C.
Requirements	require nicotinamide, organic sulfur (e.g. cysteine) and organic nitrogen (amino acids
Products	Litmus milk is made alkaline Utilize oxidatively glutamic acid, proline, alanine, aspartic acid and serine with production of ammonia and CO2
Enzymes
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	Localize and multiply among the epithelial cilia of the respiratory tract
Lifestyle	Mammalian parasite and pathogen
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Bordetella

G+C Mol %

66-70

 

Reference

Bordetella

First citation	Moreno-Lopez,M. (1952) El genero Bordetella. Microbiol Esp. 5: 117-181
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Systematatic	p 388 M. Pittman
Bergey's Determinative	p 78

References