Aurantimonas coralicida gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of white plague type II on Caribbean scleractinian corals

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1115-1122

  Denner, Ewald B M ^a   Smith, Garriet W ^b   Busse, Hans Jürgen ^a,c   Schumann, Peter ^d   Narzt, Thomas ^e   Polson, Shawn W ^f,h   Lubitz, Werner ^a   Richardson, Laurie L ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BACITRACIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CARDIOLIPIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; CYTOSINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FATTY ACID; FURAZOLIDONE; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; GUANINE; KANAMYCIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLDIMETHYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PHOSPHATIDYLMETHYLETHANOLAMINE; POLYAMINE; RNA 16S; SPECTINOMYCIN; SPERMIDINE DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UBIDECARENONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AURANTIMONAS CORALICIDA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BARTONELLACEAE; BRUCELLA; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; INCUBATION TIME; LIPID ANALYSIS; MESORHIZOBIUM MEDITERRANEUM; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLLOBACTERIACEAE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIALES; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTHOZOA; AURANTIMONAS CORALICIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLACEAE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLACEAE; DICHOCOENIA; DICHOCOENIA STOKESI; INVERTEBRATA; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM MEDITERRANEUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PHYLLOBACTERIACEAE; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIALES; RHIZOBIUM; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 0042812185     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02359-0     Document Type: Article

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