Brevundimonas

The Brevundimonas are a genus of Proteobacteria. They are Gram-negative, non-fermenting, aerobic bacilli. The Brevundimonas species are ubiquitous in the environment but are rarely isolated from clinical samples.,[2] although numbers are increasing.[3] Two species of Brevundimonas originally classified under the genus Pseudomonas have been re-classified by Seger et al. as Brevundimonas vesicularis and Brevundimonas diminuta.[4]

Brevundimonas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Caulobacterales
Family:	Caulobacteraceae
Genus:	Brevundimonas Segers et al. 1994
Species
B. abyssalis[1] B. alba B. albigilva[1] B. aurantiaca B. aveniformis[1] B. bacteroides B. balnearis[1] B. basaltis[1] B. bullata[1] B. canariensis[1] B. denitrificans[1] B. diminuta B. faecalis[1] B. halotolerans[1] B. intermedia B. humi[1] B. kwangchunensis B. lenta[1] B. mediterranea B. naejangsanensis[1] B. nasdae B. poindexterae[1] B. subvibrioides B. staleyi[1] B. terrae B. vancanneytii[1] B. variabilis B. vesicularis B. viscosa[1]

Etymology

The name Brevundimonas derives from:   Latin adjective brevis, short; Latin feminine gender noun unda, a wave; Latin feminine gender noun monas (μονάς), nominally meaning "a unit", but in effect meaning a bacterium; New Latin feminine gender noun Brevundimonas, bacteria with short wavelength flagella.[1]

Members of the genus Brevundimonas can be referred to as brevundimonad (viz. Trivialisation of names).

Survival on Mars

Brevundimonas is one of few bacteria showing high survival rates under simulated Martian conditions.[5] Results from one of these experimental irradiation experiments, combined with previous radiation modeling, indicate that Brevundimonas sp. MV.7 em-placed only 30 cm deep in Martian dust could survive the cosmic radiation for up to 100,000 years before suffering 10⁶ population reduction.

References

1. Brevundimonas entry in LPSN; Euzéby J (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655.
2. Lee MR, Huang YT, Liao CH, Chuang TY, Lin CK, Lee SW, et al. (October 2011). "Bacteremia caused by Brevundimonas species at a tertiary care hospital in Taiwan, 2000-2010". European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 30 (10): 1185–91. doi:10.1007/s10096-011-1210-5. PMID 21461849.
3. Ryan MP, Pembroke JT (January 2018). "Brevundimonas spp: Emerging global opportunistic pathogens". Virulence. 9 (1): 480–493. doi:10.1080/21505594.2017.1419116. PMC 5955483. PMID 29484917.
4. Panasiti V, Devirgiliis V, Mancini M, Curzio M, Rossi M, Fioriti D, et al. (April 2008). "A cutaneous infection caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis: a case report". International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology. 21 (2): 457–61. doi:10.1177/039463200802100226. PMID 18547490.
5. Dartnell LR, Hunter SJ, Lovell KV, Coates AJ, Ward JM (September 2010). "Low-temperature ionizing radiation resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans and Antarctic Dry Valley bacteria". Astrobiology. 10 (7): 717–32. Bibcode:2010AsBio..10..717D. doi:10.1089/ast.2009.0439. PMID 20950171.