| Cross Index | Streptobacillus moniliformis |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods Pasteurellaceae |
| Compare | Enterobacteriaceae,
Arsenophonus nasoniae,
Buttiauxella agrestis,
Cedecea, Citrobacter, Edwardsiella, Enterobacter, Erwinia, Escherichia, Ewingella americana, Hafnia alvei, Klebsiella, Kluyvera, Leclercia adecarboxylata,
Leminorella, Moellerella wisconsensis,
Morganella morganii,
Obesumbacterium proteus,
Pantoea, Pragia fontium Proteus, Providencia, Rahnella aquatilis, Salmonella,
Serratia, Shigella, Tatumella plyseos, Xenorhabdus, Yersina, Yohenella regensburgei Vibrionacae, Aeromonas, Enhydrobacter aerosaccus, Photobacterium, Plesiomonas shigelloides, Vibrio Pasteurellaceae, Actinobacillus, Hemophilus, Pasteurella Calymmatobacterium granulomatis, Cardiobacterium hominis, Chromobacterium, Eikenella corrodens, Gardnerella vaginalis, Streptobacillus moniliformis, Zymomonas |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Streptobacillus moniliformis |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | Rods, 0.1-0.7 x 1-5 um long, with rounded or pointed ends. Occur singly or form long, wavy chains or filaments 10-150 um long. |
| Motility | Non-motile |
| Specialized structures | May be highly pleomorphic, depending on cultural conditions. Single rods may show central swelling; chains or filaments may have a series of swellings resulting in a "string of beads" appearance... |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Streptobacillus moniliformis |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | Facultative anaerobe metabolism is strictly fermentative |
| pH | |
| Temperature | Optimum temperature, 35-37`C |
| Requirements | A moist environment or soft agar may enhance growth Serum, ascitic fluid or blood is required for growth |
| Products | Indole not produced. Nitrate not reduced to nitrite Acid but no gas is produced from glucose |
| Enzymes | Catalase- and oxidase-negative |
| Unique features | Conversion to L-phase or transitional-phase variants may occur spontaneously during cultivation. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Inhabitants of the throat and nasopharynx of wild and laboratory rats |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | Causes one form of rat-bite fever in man. |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Streptobacillus moniliformis |
| G+C Mol % | 24-25 for the bacillary form and 24-26 for the L-phase variant (Tm) |
| (Williams et al., 1969; and unpublished data of Williams and Wittler, 1970, as reported by Wittler and Cary, 1974). |
| Reference | Streptobacillus moniliformis |
| First citation | Levaditi,C., S. Nicolau, and P. Poincloux (1925) Sur le role etiologique de Streptobacillus moniliformis (nov. Spec.) dans l'erythrme polymorph aigu septicemique. C.R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci (paris) 180:1186-1190 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 598 N. Savage |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 199 |
| References |