Morphology | Buttiauxella agrestis |
CELLULAR |
Staining | Gram negative |
Morphology | small rods shaped cells |
Motility | peritrichous flagella |
Specialized structures |
Division |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface |
Liquid |
Growth Parameters | Buttiauxella agrestis |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | chemoorganotrophic with a respiratory and a fermentative metabolism |
Oxygen | facultatively anaerobic |
pH | |
Temperature | optimum 30-37 oC |
Requirements | |
Products | carbohydrates catabolized with the
production of acid and gas from: arabinose, celllobiose,
glucose, lactose, maltose, mannitol, mellibiose,
raffinose, rhamnose, salicin, trehalose, and xylose reduces nitrates |
Enzymes | oxidase negative, catalase positive, indole positive, Voges-Proskauer negative, methyl red positive, Simmons citrate positive, Lysine decarboxylase negative, arginine dihydrolase negative, orithine decarboxylase positive |
Unique features |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | isolated from freshwater |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity |
Distribution |
Genome | Buttiauxella agrestis |
G+C Mol % |
Reference | Buttiauxella agrestis |
First citation | Ferragut et al 1981
Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg.
Abt. 1 Orig C 2:33-44 Ferregut et al 1982 IJSB 32:266-268 |
The Prokaryotes | p |
Bergey's Determinative | p 176-177 |
References |