| Species/Subspecies: | Taylorella asinigenitalis | ||||||||||
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| Etymology: | Genus name: named after C.E.D. Taylor, who first studied bacteria within this genus Species epithet: the genitalia of the donkey | ||||||||||
| Significance: | [Of minor importance] | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Betaproteobacteria Order Burkholderiales Family Alcaligenaceae Genus Taylorella |
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| Type Strain: | UCD-1 = ATCC 700933 | ||||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell):
| Very small white colonies (0.2-0.3 mm) | ||||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Non-motile coccoid rods. | ||||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||||
| Metabolism: | Microaerophilic | ||||||||||
| Catalase/Oxidase: | +/+ | ||||||||||
| Other Enzymes: | Tryptophanase -, urease - | ||||||||||
| Fermentation of carbohydrates: | Taylorella spp. do not ferment carbohydrates. | ||||||||||
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| Disease: | Clinical relevance has not been proved |
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| Hosts: | Donkey and has also been isolated from the horse at a few occasions | ||||||||||
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Only two closely related species have been described within genus Taylorella, which is related to genus Burkholderia. | ||||||||||
| Comment: | Can be confused with Taylorella equigenitalis during laboratory diagnostics | ||||||||||
| Updated: | 2023-03-22 |