Flavobacterium
| Flavobacterium | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidetes |
| Class: | Flavobacteria |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Flavobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Flavobacterium Bergey, et al. 1923 |
| Species | |
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F. aquatile |
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Flavobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative, non-motile and motile, rod-shaped bacteria that consists of ten recognized species,[1] as well as three newly proposed species (F. gondwanense,[2] F. salegens,[2] and F. scophthalmum[3]). Flavobacteria are found in soil and fresh water in a variety of environments. Several species are known to cause disease in freshwater fish.[4]
Flavobacterium psychrophilum causes the Bacterial Cold Water Disease (BCWD) on salmonids and the Rainbow Trout Fry Disease (RTFS) on rainbow trouts. Flavobacterium columnare causes the cotton-wool disease on freshwater fishes. Flavobacterium branchiophilum causes the Bacterial Gill Disease (BGD) on trouts.
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- ^ Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.
- ^ a b Dobson, et al.; Colwell, RR; McMeekin, TA; Franzmann, PD (1993 Jan). "Direct sequencing of the polymerase chain reaction-amplified 16S rRNA gene of Flavobacterium gondwanense sp. nov. and Flavobacterium salegens sp nov., two new species from a hypersaline antarctic lake". Int J Syst Bacteriol 43 (1): 77–83. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-1-77. PMID 7678983.
- ^ Mudarris, et al.; Austin, B.; Segers, P.; Vancanneyt, M.; Hoste, B.; Bernardet, J. F. (1993 Jan). "Flavobacterium scophthalmum sp. nov., a pathogen of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.)". Int J Syst Bacteriol 44 (1): 77–83. doi:10.1099/00207713-44-3-447. PMID 8068540.
- ^ Bernardet, et al. (1994 Jul). "Cutting a Gordian Knot: Emended Classification and Description of the Genus Flavobacterium, Emended Description of the Family Flavobacteriaceae, and Proposal of Flavobacterium hydatis nom. nov. (Basonym, Cytophaga aquatalis Strohl and Tait 1978)". Int J Syst Bacteriol 46 (3): 447–53. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-1-128.
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