Moraxella

Moraxella
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Pseudomonadales
Family: Moraxellaceae
Genus:
Lwoff, 1939[1]
Type species
Moraxella lacunata[1]
Species

M. atlantae
M. boevrei
M. bovis
M. bovoculi
M. canis
M. caprae
M. catarrhalis
M. caviae
M. cuniculi
M. equi
M. haemolytica
M. lacunata
M. lincolnii
M. nasibovis
M. nasicaprae
M. nasovis
M. nonliquefaciens
M. oblonga
M. oculi
M. osloensis
M. pluranimalium
M. porci
M. saccharolytica

Moraxella is a genus of gram-negative bacteria in the family Moraxellaceae. It is named after the Swiss ophthalmologist Victor Morax. The organisms are short rods, coccobacilli, or as in the case of Moraxella catarrhalis, diplococci in morphology, with asaccharolytic, oxidase-positive, and catalase-positive properties.[2] M. catarrhalis is the clinically most important species under this genus.

  1. ^ a b LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. ^ Ala'Aldeen, D. A. A. (2007). "Neisseria and moraxella". In Greenwood, David; Slack, Richard; Peitherer, John; & Barer, Mike (Eds.), Medical Microbiology (17th ed.), p. 258. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-443-10209-7.
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