Cardiobacteriales
| Cardiobacteriales | |
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| Cardiobacterium hominis on a blood agar plate | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Cardiobacteriales Garrity et al. 2005 |
| Type genus | |
| Cardiobacterium Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
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The Cardiobacteriales are an order of Pseudomonadota. Like other Proteobacteria, they are Gram-negative and rod-shaped. The order is better known for including the pathogenic HACEK organisms Cardiobacterium hominis and Cardiobacterium valvarum.
Etymology
The Cardiobacteriales take their name from the original type genus Cardiobacterium first described in 1964, when C. hominis was isolated as a pathogenic species from human cases of endocarditis.[1][2]
The name is formed from Cardiobacterium ("heart bacterium") + -ales ("order (of)").[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Order: Cardiobacteriales in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
- ^ Slotnick, I.J.; Dougherty, M. "Further characterization of an unclassified group of bacteria causing endocarditis in man: Cardiobacterium hominis gen. et sp. n.". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 30. Springer Nature: 261–272. doi:10.1007/BF02046732.