Differentiation of Alcaligenes Faecalis From Brucella Bronchisepticus by Biochemical and Nutritional Methods

Biology of Bordetella bronchiseptica.

“…+, Growth turbidity in defined medium after five serial culture transfers; -, no visible growth turbidity. by several phenotypic characters, such as rapid growth on blood-free peptone agar, motility, and various biochemical properties (Table 2) (17,92,128,129,154,162). All Bordetella spp.…”

Bordetella bronchiseptica bronchitis

“…These symptoms resolved with 2 weeks of oral thrimethoprimsulfamethoxazole therapy (80 mg of trimethoprim and 400 mg of sulfamethoxazole twice daily). B. bronchiseptica is a pleomorphic, motile, catalaseand oxidase-positive, nonfermentative, gram-negative coccobacillus which until the 1950s was difficult to distinguish from phenotypically similar organisms, particularly Akaligenes faecalis (8,16). The characteristics distinguishing B. bronchiseptica from morphologically and biochemically similar bacteria are shown in Table 1; recent taxonomic changes involving the genus Alcaligenes are included (10).…”

Incidence of Bordetella bronchiseptica in swine and experimental production of rhinitis with the organism

“…Other workers have emphasized the characteristic urease activity of this organism (Szturm and Bourdon, 1948;Ulrich and Needham, 1953;Lacey, 1953a;Beer, 1960b) (Rowatt, 1957) or colloidal copper sulfide (Proom, 1955). Most workers reported that some iso lates reduced nitrates to nitrites while other isolates did not (Torrey and Rahe, 1913;Evans, 1918;Ferry and Noble, 1918;Spooner, 1938;Lautrop and Lacey, 1960).…”

“…The organism now known as Bordetella bronchiseptica was first named Bacillus bronchica'nis by Ferry (1911) . In 1912 he (Ferry, 1912a) Recent investigations by Szturm and Bourdon (1948), Ulrich and Needham (1953), Proom (1955) and Beer (1960b) (Bergey et , 1939;Breed et al, 1948). This classification was based on the biochemic, cultural, morphologic and antigenic similarities to members of that genus.…”