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| Genus: | Arcobacter Vandamme et al. 1991
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| Arcobacter nitrofigilis (McClung et al. 1983) Vandamme et al. 1991
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Arcobacter is a genus of Gram-negative, spiral-shaped bacteria in the phylum Campylobacterota.[2] It shows an unusually wide range of habitats, and some species can be human and animal pathogens.[2][3] Species of the genus Arcobacter are found in both animal and environmental sources, making it unique among the Campylobacterota.[4] This genus currently consists of five species: A. butzleri, A. cryaerophilus, A. skirrowii, A. nitrofigilis, and A. sulfidicus, although several other potential novel species have recently been described from varying environments.[4][5] Three of these five known species are pathogenic.[5] Members of this genus were first isolated in 1977 from aborted bovine fetuses. They are aerotolerant, Campylobacter-like organisms, previously classified as Campylobacter.[6] The genus Arcobacter, in fact, was created as recently as 1992.[7] Although they are similar to this other genus, Arcobacter species can grow at lower temperatures than Campylobacter, as well as in the air, which Campylobacter cannot.[6]
The name Arcobacter is derived from the Latin arcus meaning "bow" and the Greek bacter meaning "rod", and should be understood to mean "bow-shaped rod" or "curved rod". This is a reference to the characteristic curved shaped that most Arcobacter cells possess.[8]
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- ^ a b Donachie, Stuart (2005). "Arcobacter halophilus sp. nov., the first obligate halophile in the genus Arcobacter". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (Pt 3): 1271–1277. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63581-0. PMID 15879267.
- ^ a b Fera, M.T. (2004). "Detection of Arcobacter spp. in the Coastal Environment of the Mediterranean Sea". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70 (3): 1271–1276. Bibcode:2004ApEnM..70.1271F. doi:10.1128/AEM.70.3.1271-1276.2004. PMC 368354. PMID 15006743.
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