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Capnophilic Bird Pathogens in the Family Flavobacteriaceae: Riemerella, Ornithobacterium and Coenonia

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The Prokaryotes

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Riemerella columbina, Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale and Coenonia anatina were initially recognized in the course of long-term studies on the etiology of respiratory tract infections in birds as phenotypically unusual isolates. The reclassification of the organism known as Pasteurella anatipestifer and Moraxella anatipestifer (Segers et al., 1993) triggered a series of taxonomic studies leading to the stepwise characterization and description of O. rhinotracheale (Vandamme et al., 1994), C. anatina (Vandamme et al., 1999) and R. columbina (Vancanneyt et al., 1999). There have been no additional studies since the original description of the latter two organisms. However, the formal description of O. rhinotracheale led to a wealth of studies on this bacterium because of its recognition as an economically important pathogen in turkey and chicken husbandry. Rather unexpectedly, although not closely related, Riemerella, Ornithobacterium and Coenoniaturned out to belong to...

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

    Martin Dworkin Professor Dr. (Editor-in-Chief) (Editor-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, D039, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

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  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

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Vandamme, P., Hafez, H.M., Hinz, K.H. (2006). Capnophilic Bird Pathogens in the Family Flavobacteriaceae: Riemerella, Ornithobacterium and Coenonia. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30747-8_27

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