Pasteurella lymphangitidis

Pasteurella lymphangitidis is a bacterium; it causes bovine lymphangitis.[1] Its reclassification to Yersinia has been proposed, given it poses a 99% sequence similarity to both Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia pestis.[2]

Pasteurella lymphangitidis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Gammaproteobacteria
Order:
Pasteurellales
Family:
Pasteurellaceae
Genus:
Pasteurella
Species:
P. lymphangitidis
Binomial name
Pasteurella lymphangitidis
Sneath and Stevens 1990

References
  1. Sneath, P. H. A.; Stevens, M. (1990). "Actinobacillus rossii sp. nov., Actinobacillus seminis sp. nov., nom. rev., Pasteurella bettii sp. nov., Pasteurella lymphangitidis sp. nov., Pasteurella mairi sp. nov., and Pasteurella trehalosi sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 40 (2): 148–153. doi:10.1099/00207713-40-2-148. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 2223608.
  2. Olivier Gaillot; Olivier Lemenand; Michael Marceau & Michel Simonet (August 2013). "Proposed reclassification of Pasteurella lymphangitidis Sneath & Stevens 1990 as Yersinia pseudotuberculosis". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 10): 3927–9. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.051524-0. PMID 23919959.

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