CLASSIFICATION

S. ruminantium is differentiated from the other species on the basis of fermentability of the various carbohydrates and other biochemical acitivities listed above. The tumbling motility is characteristic. The GC content of the DNA is 53-58 mol%.

BIOCHEMISTRY

S. ruminantium produces the acids acetic, propionic and to a lesser extent succinic from glucose, sucrose, cellobiose, mannitol and variably from lactose and trehalose. It hydrolyses aesculin and produces H2S. It may reduce nitrate and does not hydrolyse gelatin.

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S. ruminantium is frequently isolated from rumen fluid of cows and sheep. They also form part of the normal flora of the alimentary tract of swine.

Intestinal Infections:

S. ruminantium is not generally associated with intestinal infections.

Extraintestinal Infections:

S. ruminantium is not generally associated with non-intestinal infections.

Animal Infections:

S. ruminantium is not generally associated with animal infections.

Anaerobic culture methods have to strictly adhered to and complex media are required. Media such as blood agar or similarly rich media are required. As S. ruminantium is the only species to ferment cellobiose this can be used as a means of selecting these organisms.

S. ruminantium has been isolated from bog-water and sewage sludges.

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None have been developed as none are needed due to the organisms not being pathogenic.

Bacteroidaceae

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