Reclassification of equine isolates previously reported as Actinobacillus equuli, variants of A. equuli, Actinobacillus suis or Bisgaard taxon 11 and proposal of A. equuli subsp. equuli subsp. nov. and A. equuli subsp. haemolyticus subsp. nov

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1569-1576

  Christensen, Henrik ^a   Bisgaard, Magne ^a   Olsen, John Elmerdahl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Actinobacillus equuli; Bisgaard taxon 11; DNA hybridization; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS EQUULI; ACTINOBACILLUS SUIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTYPE; HORSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HORSES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TERMINOLOGY;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ACTINOBACILLUS EQUULI SUBSP. EQUULI; ACTINOBACILLUS EQUULI SUBSP. HAEMOLYTICUS; ACTINOBACILLUS SUIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BISGAARD TAXA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036739244     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.01637-0     Document Type: Article

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