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Bordetella bronchiseptica
Epidemiology:
- may be isolated from humans after contact with guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, cats or rodents
- rare cause of respiratory disease in humans, predominantly in the immunocompromised
Laboratory:
- Bordetella bronchiseptica Ab in serum
- Bordetella bronchiseptica antigen in specimen
- Bordetella bronchiseptica DNA
- culture
- B. bronchiseptica grows readily on conventional media.
- glucose oxidizer; MacConkey -; urease +; motility via lateral polytrichous flagellae
General
Bordetella
Properties
KINGDOM: monera
DIVISION: SCHIZOMYCETES
References
Clinical Diagnosis & Management by Laboratory Methods,
19th edition, J.B. Henry (ed), W.B. Saunders Co.,
Philadelphia, PA. 1996, pg 1161-62