Chryseobacterium nematophagum

Chryseobacterium nematophagum is a Gram-negative, aerobic and rod-shaped bacteria from the genus of Chryseobacterium which has been isolated from Caenorhabditis briggsae nematodes in rotting apples in France.[1] It exhibits gliding motility. After ingestion by a nematode, they attack it from within, breaking down its extracellular matrices and killing it.[2] In laboratory tests C. nematophagum infected and killed a wide variety of nematodes, including the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, and the vertebrate parasites Ancylostoma caninum, Cooperia curtecei, Cooperia oncophera, Haemonchus contortus, Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, Ostertagia ostertagi, Parastrongyloides trichosura and Trichostrongylus vitrinus.[1]

Chryseobacterium nematophagum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacteroidetes
Class:	Flavobacteria
Order:	Flavobacteriales
Family:	Flavobacteriaceae
Genus:	Chryseobacterium
Species:	C. nematophagum
Binomial name
Chryseobacterium nematophagum

References

1. Page, Antony P.; Roberts, Mark; Félix, Marie-Anne; Pickard, Derek; Page, Andrew; Weir, William (28 February 2019). "The golden death bacillus Chryseobacterium nematophagum is a novel matrix digesting pathogen of nematodes". BMC Biology. 17 (10). doi:10.1186/s12915-019-0632-x. PMC 6394051. PMID 30813925. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
2. Zhang, Sarah (28 February 2019). "The 'Golden Death' Bacterium Found in a Rotten Apple". Retrieved 28 February 2019.