Trueperella pyogenes

Trueperella pyogenes
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
Class: Actinobacteria
Order: Actinomycetales
Family: Actinomycetaceae
Genus: Trueperella
Species: T. pyogenes
Binomial name
Trueperella pyogenes
(Glage 1903)[1]
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Actinomyces pyogenes
  • Arcanobacterium pyogenes
  • Bacillus pyogenes
  • Corynebacterium pyogenes

Trueperella pyogenes is a species of bacteria that are nonmotile, facultatively anaerobic, and gram-positive. The cells typically measure 0.5 by 2.0 μm. They appear as pleomorphic or coccoid rods. They tend to be grouped singly, or in short chains. Sometimes, they are grouped into V-shaped pairs.[2]

T. pyogenes is found in the urogenital, gastrointestinal, and upper respiratory tracts of cattle, goats, horses, musk deer, pigs, and sheep, in which it may cause abscesses, mastitis, metritis, and pneumonia.[2][3] It can thrive in either anaerobic or aerobic environments, but is ideally suited to one with high (about 7%) levels of carbon dioxide.[3]

The species was originally classified as Actinomyces pyogenes,[4] then Arcanobacterium pyogenes,[4] now Trueperella pyogenes.[5] When the genus Arcanobacterium was split into two (Arcanobacterium and Trueperella gen. nov.),[5] the new genus name was chosen in honor of the German microbiologist Hans G. Trüper.[2] The specific name pyogenes is used in various bacterial genera and was derived from the Greek word puon or Latin word pyum, and the suffix -genes, yielding pyogenes, meaning "pus-producing".[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Trueperella". Bacterio.net. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Trueperella pyogenes". VetBact. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 Machado, Vinicius S.; Bicalho, Rodrigo C. (1 May 2014). "Complete Genome Sequence of Trueperella pyogenes, an Important Opportunistic Pathogen of Livestock" (PDF). Genome Announcements. American Society for Microbiology. 2 (2). doi:10.1128/genomeA.00400-14. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 Pascual Ramos, C; Foster, G; Collins, MD (1997), "Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Actinomyces based on 16S rRNA gene sequences: description of Arcanobacterium phocae sp. nov., Arcanobacterium bernardiae comb. nov., and Arcanobacterium pyogenes comb. nov.", International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 47 (1): 46–53, doi:10.1099/00207713-47-1-46, ISSN 0020-7713, PMID 8995800.
  5. 1 2 Yassin, AF; et al. (2011), "Comparative chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic studies on the genus Arcanobacterium Collins et al. 1982 emend. Lehnen et al. 2006: proposal for Trueperella gen. nov. and emended description of the genus Arcanobacterium", Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 61 (6): 1265–1274, doi:10.1099/ijs.0.020032-0, PMID 20622055.


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