Methylobacterium fujisawaense
Gram stain of Methylobacterium fujisawaense appear as negative rods under bright-field microscopy ×1000.
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Methylobacteriaceae
Genus: Methylobacterium
Species:
M. fujisawaense
Binomial name
Methylobacterium fujisawaense
Green et al., 1988
Methylobacterium fujisawaense pink-pigmented bacterial colonies growing on R2A after 5 days of incubation at 30 °C (front view).
Methylobacterium fujisawaense pink-pigmented bacterial colonies growing on R2A after 5 days of incubation at 30 °C (reverse view).

Methylobacterium fujisawaense is a facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria. It is catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. It produces pink-pigment on microbiological agar media (TSA and R2A, etc.). This bacteria is facultatively methylotrophic and is widely distributed in nature. They can be isolated from soil and on occasion freshwater environments, including drinking water.[1]

Commonly, M. fujisawaense bacteria is not established as pathogenic; however, rarely it may cause human infection/disease, mostly in immunocompromised patients.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Methylobacterium hispanicum sp. nov. And Methylobacterium aquaticum sp. nov., isolated from drinking water". Archived from the original on 2015-02-02. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
  2. ^ Fanci, Rosa; Corti, Giampaolo; Bartoloni, Alessandro; Tortoli, Enrico; Mariottini, Alessandro; Pecile, Patrizia (2010). "Unusual Methylobacterium fujisawaense Infection in a Patient with Acute Leukaemia Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: First Case Report". Case Reports in Medicine. 2010: 1–3. doi:10.1155/2010/313514. PMC 2852599. PMID 20396386.

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