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The Genus Bordetella

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The Prokaryotes

Introduction

Description of Genus Bordetella

The genus Bordetella encompasses a group of Gram-negative, small coccobacilli. They are obligate aerobes and fail to ferment carbohydrates such as glucose. Most members have adapted to live in close association with higher organisms, either as overt primary pathogens or in commensal associations that occasionally result in opportunistic diseases.

Current systematic analysis of 16S rDNA sequences has established Achromobacter (Gerlach et al., 2001), not Alcaligenes as previously reported, as the bacterial species most closely related to the Bordetella (see Fig. 1). Achromobacter are free-living organisms that are widespread in soil and water but are also commonly isolated from the hospital environment. They only rarely cause disease, and then in compromised individuals, and appear to lack the constellation of virulence factors associated with Bordetella. Interestingly, a missing link uniting the environmental Achromobacter and the pathogenic Bordetella...

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Weiss, A. (2006). The Genus Bordetella . In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30745-1_27

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