Flavobacterium

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Flavobacterium

Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacteroidetes
Class:	Flavobacteria
Order:	Flavobacteriaceae
Family:	Flavobacteriaceae
Genus:	Flavobacterium Bergey, et al. 1923

Species

F. aquatile
F. branchiophilum
F. columnare
F. flevense
F. gondwanense
F. hydatis
F. johnsoniae
F. pectinovorum
F. psychrophilum
F. saccharophilum
F. salegens
F. scophthalmum
F. succinans

Flavobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative, nonmotile, 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.

[edit] See also

Nylon-eating bacteria

[edit] References

^ 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. (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. PMID 7678983.
^ Mudarris, et al. (1993 Jan). "Flavobacterium scophthalmum sp. nov., a pathogen of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.).". Int J Syst Bacteriol 44 (1): 77–83. PMID 7678983.
^ 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. PMID 8068540.