Cross Index | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
Morphology | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
CELLULAR |
Staining | Gram negative |
Morphology | pleomorphic short rods (0.3- 1.5um x 1-3 um) Cells occur singly, in pairs, or short chains. Some cells are forked or Y-shaped |
Motility | non moitle |
Specialized structures | no spores |
Division |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface |
Liquid |
Growth Parameters | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | |
Oxygen | anaerobe |
pH | |
Temperature | |
Requirements | |
Products | generally assacharolytic although a few
carbohydrates are fermented weakly. Acetic and lactic
acids are the major metabolic end products lacks both sphingolipids and menaquinones . Its non-hydroxylated cellular fatty acids are predominantly of the straight chain type |
Enzymes | |
Unique features |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | isolated from appendix abcesses, lung and abdominal abcesses and occaionally from human and pig feces |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity |
Distribution |
Genome | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
G+C Mol % |
Reference | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
First Citation | Shah and Collins 1986 Syst. Appl. Microbiol 8:86-88 Shah and Collins 1986 IJSB 36:573 |
The Prokaryotes | p |
Bergey's Determinative | p 293-294 |
References |