# microbiology bacteria tularemia

Bacteria of the Day: Stenotrophomonas bentonitica (Sánchez-Castro et al., 2017).

S. bentonitica is a Gram-stain negative, non-motile, rod-shaped, aerobe. It was isolated from bentonite (clay) formations from southern Spain.

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2020-04-14

Bacteria of the Day: Ophiothrix epidendron (Sant'Anna et al., 2010).

O. epidendron is an olive-green, aerophytic cyanobacteria. It can commonly be found on mosses or liverworts on the bark of trees in the tropical forests of Brazil.

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2020-04-05

Bacteria of the Day: Kytococcus schroeteri (Becker et al. 2002).

K. schroeteri is a Gram-positive, yellow-pigmented, coccoid bacterium first isolated from blood samples in Germany. It can cause bacteremia, pneumonia, and endocarditis.

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2020-03-22

Bacteria of the Day: Orbus hercynius (Volkmann et al., 2010).

O. hercynius is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic gammaproteobacteria that exhibits either rod or cocci morphologies. It was isolated from the faeces of a wild boar.

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2020-02-17

Bacteria of the Day: Quadrisphaera granulorum (Maszenan et al., 2005).

Q. granulorum is a Gram-positive bacterium isolated from aerobic granules in a sequencing batch reactor. This cocci bacterium grows mainly as clusterd tetrads.

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2020-01-19

Bacteria of the Day: Ornithinibacter aureus (Xiao et al., 2011).

O. aureus is a Gram-positive, branching, hyphal bacterium isolated from the South China Sea. It is bright yellow and has a L-ornithine containing cell wall, hence its name.

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2020-01-17

Bacteria of the Day: Francisella tularensis (McCoy and Chapin, 1912).

F. tularensis is a Gram negative pathogen and causative agent of tularemia. The genus Francisella is named after Edward Francis, who gave tularemia its name.

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2019-12-19