Piscirickettsiaceae

Piscirickettsiaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
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Family:
Piscirickettsiaceae
Genera

Cycloclasticus
Hydrogenovibrio
Methylophaga
Piscirickettsia
Thiomicrorhabdus
Thiomicrospira

The Piscirickettsiaceae are a family of Proteobacteria. All species are aerobes found in water.[1] The species Piscirickettsia salmonis is a fish pathogen and causes piscirickettsiosis in salmonid fishes.[2] It lives in cells of infected hosts and cannot be cultured on artificial media.[1] Piscirickettsia salmonis is nonmotile, whereas the other five genera are motile by using a single flagellum.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria
  2. Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt: The Prokaryotes, A Handbook of the Biology of Bacteria. Volume 5: Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta Subclasses ISBN 978-0-387-25495-1


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