Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus

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Gram stain Culture

General information
- Taxonomy
  Family: Moraxellaceae
  Formily: Moraxella
  P. phenylpyruvicus
  
  Natural habitat
  They can be isolated from soil, seawater, seabirds especially penguins, fish, poultry,irradiated foods and from human clinical isolates.
  It may occasionally be an opportunistic human pathogens.
  
  Clinical significance
  Can cause humans infections such asendocarditis, peritonitis, and fungating lesions of the foot, but those infections caused by this bacterium are rare.
  
  BE AWARE that Brucella sp can be MISIDENTIFIED as P. phenylpurivicus or H. influenzae
Gram stain
- Gram negative coccobacillus
  
  have a tendency to resist decolorization
Culture characteristics
- Obligate Aerobic / fastidious
  
  Grows between 4-35ºC
  
  BA: colonies are smooth, translucent to semi-opaque, small 0.5 mm after 24 hours of incubation,
  
  McConkey: growth,
  
  BBAØ: no growth
Characteristics
References
- James Versalovic et al.(2011) Manual of Clinical Microbiology 10th Edition