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Erysipelothrix
Genus of bacteria

Erysipelothrix is a genus of bacteria containing four described species: Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, Erysipelothrix tonsillarum, Erysipelothrix inopinata and Erysipelothrix larvae. Additional species have been proposed based on DNA-DNA hybridization studies. "The hallmark of Erysipelothrix is the presence of a type B cell wall, in which the peptide bridge is formed between amino acids at positions 2 and 4 of adjacent peptide side-chains and not, as in the vast majority of bacteria, between amino acids at positions 3 and 4."

The best-known species within the genus is Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, which is the cause of erysipelas of domestic pigs, poultry and other animal species. In humans, E. rhusiopathiae infections are termed erysipeloid. Erysipelothrix tonsillarum has been described as a pathogen for dogs and has been isolated from the tonsils of healthy pigs and cattle. Disease caused by E. inopinata or E. larvae has not been described.

Bacteria of genus Erysipelothrix are straight or slightly curved, slender, nonmotile rods that may exist singly, in V-shaped pairs, or in short chains. Some strains have a tendency to form long filaments. The bacteria are Gram-positive but can be mistaken for Gram-negative bacteria during analysis because they lose their staining easily. They are aerobic to facultatively anaerobic but not acid-fast.

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Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)10 and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).11

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024121314120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220151617
Erysipelothrix

E. larvae Bang et al. 2016

E. inopinata Verbarg et al. 2004

E. anatis Eisenberg et al. 2022

E. aquatica Eisenberg et al. 2022

E. urinaevulpis Eisenberg et al. 2022

E. rhusiopathiae (Migula 1900) Buchanan 1918

E. piscisicarius Pomaranski et al. 2020

E. tonsillarum Takahashi et al. 1987

Erysipelothrix

E. larvae

E. urinaevulpis

E. inopinata

E. anatis

E. aquatica

E. tonsillarum

E. piscisicarius

E. rhusiopathiae

Unassigned species:

  • E. amsterdamensis Zhong et al. 2024
  • "E. enhydrae" Chang et al. 2024
  • "E. muris" Chen et al. 2006

References

  1. Euzéby, J.P. "Erysipelothrix". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09. https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/erysipelothrix ↩

  2. Takahashi, T.; Fujisawa, T.; Benno, Y.; Tamura, Y.; Sawada, T.; Suzuki, S.; Muramatsu, M.; Mitsuoka, T. (1 April 1987). "Erysipelothrix tonsillarum sp. nov. Isolated from Tonsils of Apparently Healthy Pigs". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 37 (2): 166–168. doi:10.1099/00207713-37-2-166. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩

  3. Verbarg, Susanne; Rheims, Holger; Emus, Sabine; Frühling, Anja; Kroppenstedt, Reiner M.; Stackebrandt, Erko; Schumann, Peter (1 January 2004). "Erysipelothrix inopinata sp. nov., isolated in the course of sterile filtration of vegetable peptone broth, and description of Erysipelotrichaceae fam. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (1): 221–225. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02898-0. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩

  4. Bang, B.H.; Rhee, M.S.; Chang, D.H.; Park, D.S.; Kim, B.C. (2015). "Erysipelothrix larvae sp. nov., isolated from the larval gut of the rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 107 (2): 443–51. doi:10.1007/s10482-014-0342-x. PMID 25534074. S2CID 254236355. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩

  5. Takahashi, T.; Fujisawa, T.; Tamura, Y.; Suzuki, S; Muramatsu, M.; Sawada, T.; Benno, Y.; Mitsuoka, T. (1992). "DNA relatedness among Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae strains representing all twenty-three serovars and Erysipelothrix tonsillarum". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 42 (3): 469–473. doi:10.1099/00207713-42-3-469. PMID 1503975. https://doi.org/10.1099%2F00207713-42-3-469 ↩

  6. Takahashi, Toshio; Fujisawa, Tomohiko; Umeno, Annu; Kozasa, Takashi; Yamamoto, Kinya; Sawada, Takuo (2008). "A taxonomic study on erysipelothrix by DNA-DNA hybridization experiments with numerous strains isolated from extensive origins". Microbiology and Immunology. 52 (10): 469–478. doi:10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00061.x. PMID 18822080. S2CID 19771610. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩

  7. Verbarg, Susanne; Rheims, Holger; Emus, Sabine; Frühling, Anja; Kroppenstedt, Reiner M.; Stackebrandt, Erko; Schumann, Peter (1 January 2004). "Erysipelothrix inopinata sp. nov., isolated in the course of sterile filtration of vegetable peptone broth, and description of Erysipelotrichaceae fam. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (1): 221–225. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02898-0. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩

  8. Takahashi, T; Tamura, Y; Yoshimura, H; Nagamine, N; Kijima, M; Nakamura, M; Devriese, LA (March 1993). "Erysipelothrix tonsillarum isolated from dogs with endocarditis in Belgium". Research in Veterinary Science. 54 (2): 264–5. doi:10.1016/0034-5288(93)90071-M. PMID 8460272. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩

  9. Stackebrandt, Erko; Reboli, Annette C.; Farrar, W. Edmund (2006), Dworkin, Martin; Falkow, Stanley; Rosenberg, Eugene; Schleifer, Karl-Heinz (eds.), "The Genus Erysipelothrix", The Prokaryotes, vol. 4, New York, NY: Springer US, pp. 492–510, doi:10.1007/0-387-30744-3_13, ISBN 978-0-387-30744-2 978-0-387-30744-2 ↩

  10. Euzéby, J.P. "Erysipelothrix". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09. https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/erysipelothrix ↩

  11. "Erysipelothrix". Taxonomy Browser. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2022-09-09. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=1647&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock ↩

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  15. "GTDB release 09-RS220". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024. https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/about#4%7C ↩

  16. "bac120_r220.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024. https://data.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/releases/release220/220.0/auxillary_files/bac120_r220.sp_labels.tree ↩

  17. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024. https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/taxon_history/ ↩