Gemella morbillorum
| Gemella morbillorum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Bacillales |
| Family: | Staphylococcaceae |
| Genus: | Gemella |
| Species: | G. morbillorum
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| Binomial name | |
| Gemella morbillorum (Prévot 1933) Kilpper-Bälz and Schleifer 1988
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Gemella morbillorum is a species of
Gram positive coccus usually preferring capnophilic or microaerophilic environments.[2] From its discovery in 1917 (by R. Tunnicliff) until 1988, it was known as Streptococcus morbillorum (and briefly as Peptostreptococcus morbillorum [3]). The name change followed closer examination with DNA filter hybridization (by Kilpper-Balz and Schleifer) which found it was very close to the species Gemella haemolysans.[4]
Pathogenicity
Gemella morbillorum is rarely a cause of disease in humans, though it may be found benignly in the
root canal treatments.[7]
A report of a human infection involving G. morbillorum in an Indian child was reported in 1999.[8]
Strains of this species are commonly resistant to penicillin.[9]
Bacteremia with G. morbillorum, among other bacteria, has been associated with colorectal cancer.[10]
References
- ^ Journal of Medical Microbiology (2009), 58, 1652–1656
- ^ Ruoff, Katheryn L. (2011). Aerococcus, Abiotrophia, and other Aerobic Catalase-Negative, Gram Positive Cocci in Manual of Clinical Microbiology 10th Ed. Washington DC: ASM Press. pp. 365–376.
- S2CID 40322407.
- .
- PMID 15472375.
- PMID 11716255.
- PMID 24041384.
- ^ "Case Reports".
- PMID 8783715.
- PMID 29729257.
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