... rods, isolated by the author and formerly called Achromobacter. They were compared with 75 named strains of ... rods, usually peritrichous. Phenon 1: Agrobacterium sp. (2), Achromobacter hartlebii (1), Agr. tumefaciens (1). Acid was produced ... in pairs. Phenon 2: Bacterium (or Acinetobacter or Achromobacter) anitratum (10), Achromobacter lacticum (2), Herellea sp. (8), Diplococcus mucosus (6), ... 2·5 i.u. of penicillin. Phenon 3: Achromobacter sp. (1), MJT isolates (22). Acid not produced ... u. of penicillin. Phenon 4: Mima spp. (7), Achromobacter venenosum (1), Alcaligenes viscosus (2), Moraxella Iwoffi (4), ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
1967 - Microbiology Society | Journal of General Microbiology
The names Achromobacter Bergey et al. 1923 and Achromobacter xylosoxidans Yabuuchi and Ohyama 1971 were not included on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. The name Achromobacter xylosoxidans is here revived for the same organism ... name was originally applied, and the new name Achromobacter is proposed for the genus in which this ... placed. A. xylosoxidans is the type species of Achromobacter, and ATCC 27061 is the type strain of ... The correct author citations for these names are Achromobacter Yabuuchi and Yano 1981 and A. xylosoxidans (ex ...
Tópico(s): Biofuel production and bioconversion
1981 - Microbiology Society | International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology
Tom Coenye, M. Vancanneyt, Enevold Falsen, Jean Swings, Peter Vandamme,
... indicated that these isolates belonged to the genus Achromobacter. Whole-cell protein analysis distinguished two groups, which ... study, the organisms were classified as two novel Achromobacter species, Achromobacter insolitus sp. nov. (type strain, LMG 6003T) and Achromobacter spanius sp. nov. (type strain, LMG 5911T). Achromobacter insolitus can be distinguished from Achromobacter spanius by its ability to grow on acetamide ...
Tópico(s): Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
2003 - Microbiology Society | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Winnie Ridderberg, Mikala Wang, Niels Nørskov‐Lauritsen,
... characterization of strains and species from the genus Achromobacter, which are increasingly recovered from patients with cystic ... and including type strains of the seven recognized Achromobacter species, six environmental strains, eight non-CF clinical ... concatenated gene tree. MLSA differentiated all seven current Achromobacter species and also demonstrated the presence of at ... species within the genus. CF isolates were predominantly Achromobacter xylosoxidans (64%), an undescribed Achromobacter species (18%), and ...
Tópico(s): Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
2012 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Peter Vandamme, Edward R. B. Moore, Margo Cnockaert, Evie De Brandt, Liselott Svensson‐Stadler, Kurt Houf, Theodore Spilker, John J. LiPuma,
... phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of fourteen human clinical Achromobacter strains representing four genogroups which were delineated by ... nrdA loci, demonstrated that they represent four novel Achromobacter species. The present study also characterized and provided two additional reference strains for Achromobacter ruhlandii and Achromobacter marplatensis, species for which, thus far, only single ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2012 - Elsevier BV | Systematic and Applied Microbiology
Theodore Spilker, Peter Vandamme, John J. LiPuma,
... recently described a multilocus sequence typing scheme for Achromobacter that identified several novel species in this genus. ... the ability of nrdA sequence analysis to differentiate Achromobacter species, including the seven previously named species and ... single locus sequence to differentiate species, we analyzed Achromobacter isolates obtained from 341 CF patients in the U.S.ResultsWe found that Achromobacter xylosoxidans accounts for 42% of Achromobacter infections, while Achromobacter ruhlandii accounted for 23.5% ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Applications in Construction Materials
2012 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
Margarita Gomila, Claudia Prince-Manzano, Liselott Svensson‐Stadler, Antonio Busquets, Marcel Erhard, Deny L. Martínez, Jorge Lalucat, Edward R. B. Moore,
The Achromobacter is a genus in the family Alcaligenaceae, comprising fifteen species isolated from different sources, including clinical samples. The ability to detect and correctly identify Achromobacter species, particularly A. xylosoxidans, and differentiate them from ... be inadequate for reliable identifications of isolates of Achromobacter species and genotypic-based assays, relying upon comparative ... are not able to insure definitive identifications of Achromobacter species, due to the inherently conserved nature of ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2014 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Peter Vandamme, Edward R. B. Moore, Margo Cnockaert, Charlotte Peeters, Liselott Svensson‐Stadler, Kurt Houf, Theodore Spilker, John J. LiPuma,
The phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of seventeen Achromobacter strains representing MLST genogroups 2, 5, 7 and 14 were examined. Although genogroup 2 and 14 strains shared a DNA–DNA hybridization level ... as a single locus identification tool for all Achromobacter species and genogroups, and the differential phenotypic characteristics, we propose to formally classify Achromobacter genogroups 2, 5, 7 and 14 as four ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
2013 - Elsevier BV | Systematic and Applied Microbiology
Chloé Dupont, Anne-Laure Michon, Estelle Jumas‐Bilak, Niels Nørskov‐Lauritsen, R. Chiron, Hélène Marchandin,
Achromobacter spp. are increasingly identified in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients and their ability to persistently colonize the CF respiratory tract (CFRT) suggests that Achromobacter species possess adaptive characteristics. We studied genome dynamics in 118 isolates recovered from 13 patients with Achromobacter chronic colonization (5–26 isolates per patient recovered ... rrs intragenomic diversity. Patients were chronically colonized by Achromobacter xylosoxidans (n = 10), Achromobacter dolens (n = 1) or Achromobacter insuavis (n = 2). ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2015 - Elsevier BV | Infection Genetics and Evolution
Leonard J. Lobo, Zeynep Tulu, Robert M. Aris, Peadar G. Noone,
... of patients with MDR pathogens, specifically pan-resistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, is poorly characterized.This ... 2013. Respiratory cultures before transplantation were reviewed for Achromobacter xylosoxidans and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and their antibiotic susceptibility ... Patients were divided into 5 groups: pan-resistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans (n = 9), MDR Achromobacter xylosoxidans (n = 15), pan-resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (n = ... Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (n = 26), and CF patients without Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia or Bulkholderia cenocepacia (n = 131). ...
Tópico(s): Oral and gingival health research
2015 - Wolters Kluwer | Transplantation
Peter Vandamme, Charlotte Peeters, Elisabeth Inganäs, Margo Cnockaert, Kurt Houf, Theodore Spilker, Edward R. B. Moore, John J. LiPuma,
... of a historical collection of strains identified as Achromobacter denitrificanswere examined. Sequence analysis of a 765 bp ... of these strains belonged to the recently described Achromobacter aegrifaciens, Achromobacter mucicolens, and Achromobacter insolitus, and that one strain ...
Tópico(s): Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
2016 - Microbiology Society | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Nattakorn Kuncharoen, Yuki Muramatsu, Chiyo Shibata, Yuki Kamakura, Yasuyoshi Nakagawa, Somboon Tanasupawat,
... strains represent a species belonging to the genus Achromobacter and are closely related to Achromobacter xylosoxidans NBRC 15126T (98.80 %), Achromobacter insolitus LMG 6003T (98.64 %), Achromobacter aminicus LMG 26690T (98.59 %), Achromobacter pulmonis LMG 26696T (98.58 %) and Achromobacter insuavis LMG 26845T (98.58 %). The DNA G+ ... represent a novel species, for which the name Achromobacter aloeverae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
2016 - Microbiology Society | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Eiko Yabuuchi, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Yoshimasa Kosako, Takayuki Ezaki,
... rRNA sequence analysis among the type strains of Achromobacter xylosoxidans , 4 Alcaligenes species, 5 Bordetella species, and ... of 4 other genera, the separation of genus Achromobacter Yabuuchi and Yano 1981, with the type species Achromobacter xylosoxidans , is confirmed. Alcaligenes ruhlandii (Packer and Vishniac) ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Applications in Construction Materials
1998 - Wiley | Microbiology and Immunology
Julie Jeukens, Luca Freschi, Antony T. Vincent, Jean-Guillaume Emond-Rhéault, Iréna Kukavica-Ibrulj, Steve J. Charette, Roger C. Lévesque,
... decade, there has been a rising interest in Achromobacter sp., an emerging opportunistic pathogen responsible for nosocomial ... used disinfectants as well as antibiotics. Nevertheless, the Achromobacter genus suffers from difficulties in diagnosis, unresolved taxonomy ... identification of a largely clinical lineage composed of Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Achromobacter insuavis, Achromobacter dolens, and Achromobacter ruhlandii. Within this lineage, we identified 35 positively ... s resistome and support horizontal gene transfer between Achromobacter and other ecologically similar genera. This study provides ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2017 - Oxford University Press | Genome Biology and Evolution
Ranjani Somayaji, Sanja Stanojevic, D. Elizabeth Tullis, Anne L. Stephenson, Félix Ratjen, Valerie Waters,
Achromobacter species are increasingly identified in individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF), but the clinical outcomes in these ... understood.We aimed to determine the association of Achromobacter infection on clinical outcomes in pediatric and adult ... from 1997 to 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Achromobacter spp. infection was categorized as no history of ... exacerbations and effect on lung function (FEV1%) by Achromobacter spp.A total of 1,103 patients were ... 7.3%) had one or more culture for Achromobacter species. Chronic Achromobacter infection was associated with a ...
Tópico(s): Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
2017 - American Thoracic Society | Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Raúl Recio, Patricia Brañas, María Teresa Martínez, Fernando Cháves, María Ángeles Orellana,
... fibrosis (CF) patients are susceptible to infection with Achromobacter spp., although its clinical significance remains controversial. The ... to investigate the clinical impact of infection with Achromobacter spp. in CF patients.CF outpatients with multiple ... were assigned to the case group (infected with Achromobacter spp.) or the control group (never infected with Achromobacter spp.) according to the isolation of Achromobacter spp. The Achromobacter spp. group included two subgroups, taking into consideration ...
Tópico(s): Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
2018 - Microbiology Society | Journal of Medical Microbiology
Mariana Papalia, Carla Steffanowski, Germán M. Traglia, Marisa Almuzara, Pablo Martina, L. Galanternik, Carlos Vay, Gabriel Gutkind, María Soledad Ramirez, Marcela Rádice,
... were used to describe the distribution of different Achromobacter species in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) in ... blaOXA sequencing, allowing a reliable discrimination of different Achromobacter species. A. xylosoxidans accounted for 63% of Achromobacter infections and A. ruhlandii accounted for 17%. The ... identification tools were necessary to determine that different Achromobacter species may colonize/infect the airways of patients ... administered based on the susceptibility profile of individual Achromobacter sp. isolates. Se emplearon diversas técnicas fenotípicas y ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
2019 - Elsevier BV | Revista Argentina de Microbiología
Ijeoma Okoliegbe, Karolin Hijazi, Kim Cooper, Corinne Ironside, Ian M. Gould,
Achromobacter spp. are recognized as emerging pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Though recent works have ... were to (i) identify at species-level referred Achromobacter isolates, (ii) describe species-level antimicrobial susceptibility profiles, ... determine the most promising antimicrobial combination for chronic Achromobacter infections. A total of 112 multidrug-resistant (MDR) Achromobacter species isolates from 39 patients were identified using ... the Etest method. We detected six species of Achromobacter and found that Achromobacter xylosoxidans was the most ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
2020 - American Society for Microbiology | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Laura Veschetti, Angela Sandri, Cristina Patuzzo, Paola Melotti, Giovanni Malerba, Maria M. Lleò,
Achromobacter species are increasingly being detected in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, where they can establish chronic infections ... the mechanisms contributing to a successful colonization by Achromobacter species, we sequenced the whole genome of 54 ... between chronic and occasional isolates. We identified five Achromobacter species as well as two non-affiliated genogroups (NGs). Among them were the frequently isolated Achromobacter xylosoxidans and four other species whose clinical importance is not yet clear: Achromobacter insuavis, Achromobacter dolens, Achromobacter insolitus and Achromobacter aegrifaciens. ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
2021 - Microbiology Society | Microbial Genomics
Miglė Gabrielaite, Jennifer A. Bartell, Niels Nørskov‐Lauritsen, Tacjana Pressler, Finn Cilius Nielsen, Helle Krogh Johansen, Rasmus L. Marvig,
Achromobacter species are increasingly being detected in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and this emerging pathogen is ... extent of transmission and antibiotic resistance development in Achromobacter infections. We sequenced the genomes of 101 Achromobacter clinical isolates (identified as Achromobacter xylosoxidans based on matrix-assister laser desorption ionization- ... or API N20 method was not sufficient for Achromobacter species-level typing and that the population of Achromobacter isolates was composed of five different species, among ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
2021 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Eitan Kerem, Annalisa Orenti, Anna Zolin, Luigi Annicchiarico, Pavel Dřevı́nek,
Achromobacter species are emerging pathogens isolated from respiratory samples of Patients with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) causing growing ... community. The epidemiology and the clinical impact of Achromobacter in CF is unclear since data are restricted ... or selected populations.To characterize the effect of Achromobacter respiratory infection on CF lung disease.European CF ... Patient Registry data was analysed for association between Achromobacter infection and demographic/clinical characteristics and outcomes of ...
Tópico(s): Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
2022 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
Deniz Tuğcu, Özden Türel, Gönül Aydoğan, Arzu Akçay, Zafer Şalcıoğlu, Ferhan Akıcı, Hülya Şen, Metin Demirkaya, Necati Taşkın, Nezahat Gürler,
case reportSuccessful treatment of multiresistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia in a child with acute myeloid leukemia Deniz Tugcu, Ozden Turel, Gonul Aydogan, Arzu Akcay, Zafer Salcioglu, Ferhan Akici, ... advised as a first-line therapeutic agent in Achromobacter infections, it can be considered in multidrug-resistant ... Tanimura E, Ito T, Ohyama A. "Description of Achromobacter xylosoxidans Yabuuchi and Ohyama 1971" . Int J system ... Holmes B, Snell JJ, Lapage SP. "Strains of Achromobacter xylosoxidans from clinical material" . J Clin Pathol. 1977; ...
Tópico(s): Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
2015 - King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre | Annals of Saudi Medicine
C. Crone, Omid Rezahosseini, Hans Henrik Lawaetz Schultz, Tavs Qvist, Helle Krogh Johansen, Susanne Dam Nielsen, Michael Perch,
Achromobacter is an opportunistic pathogen that mainly causes chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and ... associated with increased mortality. Little is known about Achromobacter spp. in the lung transplant recipient (LTXr) population. We aimed at describing rates of Achromobacter spp. infection in LTXr prior to, in relation ... starting two weeks after transplantation. Positive cultures of Achromobacter spp. were identified in nationwide microbiology registries, and ... had transient (n = 7) or persistent (n = 4) Achromobacter spp. infection after LTX; CF was the underlying ...
Tópico(s): Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Pathogens
... and metabolic products of 12 reference strains of Achromobacter sp. and A. xylosoxidans were determined by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC). Results showed that the two Achromobacter groups are strikingly different and can be readily ... acids and the short-chain acids produced by Achromobacter sp. The major cellular fatty acids of Achromobacter sp. were octadecenoic (18:1) and a 19- ... Hydroxy acids were not found in strains of Achromobacter sp. but comprised approximately 20% of the cellular fatty acids of A. xylosoxidans. In addition, Achromobacter sp. produced relatively large amounts of 2-ketoisocaproic ...
Tópico(s): Infections and bacterial resistance
1978 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
... many psychrotrophic, gram-negative, nonmotile, oxidase-positive coccobacilli (achromobacters) are competent for genetic transformation made possible the ... It has been demonstrated that 109 independently isolated achromobacters are genetically related since deoxyribonucleic acid samples from ... or more of the characteristics typical for most achromobacters. An oxidase-negative mutant of one of these ... the transformation assay, unlike other oxidase-negative bacteria. Achromobacters were derived from fish, poultry, irradiated foods, seawater, ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
1980 - American Society for Microbiology | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Catherine Derber, Kara Elam, Betty A. Forbes, Gonzalo Bearman,
Endocarditis due to Achromobacter species is a rare, yet serious, endovascular infection. Achromobacter species infective endocarditis is associated with underlying immunodeficiencies or prosthetic ... case of prosthetic pulmonary valve endocarditis secondary to Achromobacter xylosoxidans subspecies denitrificans is described in the present ... antibiotic therapy. A Medline/PubMed literature review of Achromobacter endocarditis was also performed. Achromobacter species are an uncommon, yet important, cause of ...
Tópico(s): Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
2011 - Pulsus Group | Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
Theodore Spilker, Peter Vandamme, John J. LiPuma,
The genus Achromobacter currently is comprised of seven species, including Achromobacter xylosoxidans, an opportunistic and nosocomial pathogen that displays broad-spectrum ... global epidemiologic investigations, to clarify the taxonomy of "Achromobacter-like" strains, and to elucidate the population structure ... this MLST scheme, we analyzed 107 genetically diverse Achromobacter isolates cultured from biologic specimens from CF and ... these 147 strains, plus three recently genome-sequenced Achromobacter strains, were assigned to 129 sequence types based ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Applications in Construction Materials
2012 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Fatima Abdouchakour, Chloé Dupont, Delphine Grau, Fabien Aujoulat, Patricia Mournetas, Hélène Marchandin, Sylvie Parer, Philippe Gibert, Jean Valcarcel, Estelle Jumas‐Bilak,
... negative bacilli, such as members of the genus Achromobacter, are emerging pathogens found in water networks. We ... the selection and the emergence of clones of Achromobacter sp. and P. aeruginosa characterized by multilocus sequence ... clone of P. aeruginosa and 2 clones of Achromobacter sp. colonized successively all of the DCUWs: the ... species and clones was linked to biocide treatments. Achromobacter strains were weak biofilm producers compared to P. ... ST309, but the coculture of P. aeruginosa and Achromobacter enhanced P. aeruginosa ST309 biofilm formation. Intraclonal genomic ...
Tópico(s): Water Treatment and Disinfection
2015 - American Society for Microbiology | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Signe Maria Nielsen, Niels Nørskov‐Lauritsen, Thomas Bjarnsholt, Rikke Louise Meyer,
Achromobacter species have attracted attention as emerging pathogens in cystic fibrosis. The clinical significance of Achromobacter infection is not yet fully elucidated; however, their ... long-term chronic infections. Still, many aspects of Achromobacter biofilm formation remain uncharacterized. In this study, we characterized biofilm formation in clinical isolates of Achromobacter and investigated the effect of challenging the biofilm ... sputum samples from cystic fibrosis patients using an Achromobacter specific peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridization ( ...
Tópico(s): Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
2016 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Microorganisms
Chao Liu, Fei Pan, Jun Guo, Weifeng Yan, Yi Jin, Changting Liu, Long Qin, Xiangqun Fang,
Background: Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) due to Achromobacter has become a substantial concern in recent years. However, HAP due to Achromobacter in the elderly is rare. Methods: A retrospective analysis was ... on 15 elderly patients with HAP due to Achromobacter spp., in which the sequence types (STs), integrons, biofilm production and antibiotic resistance of the Achromobacter spp. were examined. Results: The mean age of ... 1 was first reported in this isolate. Conclusion: Achromobacter spp. infection often occurs in severely ill elders ...
Tópico(s): Nosocomial Infections in ICU
2016 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Microbiology