Flavobacterium aquatile and Flavobacterium meningosepticum: Glucose Nonfermenters with Similar Flagellar Morphologies
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Vol. 29 (4) , 333-338
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-29-4-333
Abstract
Flavobacterium aquatile (Frankland and Frankland) Bergey et al. 1923, the type species of the genus Flavobacterium, was originally described as motile and later defined as a nonmotile glucose fermenter. The neotype strain of F. aquatile, ATCC 11947, is flagellated, spreads in semisolid agar, and produces oxidative acidity from glucose. Flavobacterium meningosepticum King 1959 was reported to be nonmotile and both oxidative and fermentative. The type strain of F. meningosepticum, ATCC 13253, is flagellated, spreads in semisolid agar, and produces oxidative acidity from glucose. The flagellar morphologies of the two strains are similar. The genus Flavobacterium should not include species which ferment glucose.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: