Helicobacter cholecystus explained

Helicobacter cholecystus is a bacterium first isolated from gallbladders of golden hamster with cholangiofibrosis and centrilobular pancreatitis. It is filamentous, Gram-negative, and motile, with a single polar-sheathed flagellum. It is also microaerophilic.^[1]

Further reading

• Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.
• Barrett, Alan DT, and Lawrence R. Stanberry. Vaccines for Biodefense and Emerging and Neglected Diseases. Access Online via Elsevier, 2009.
• Chan, Voon Loong. "Bacterial genomes and infectious diseases." Pediatric research 54.1 (2003): 1–7.
• Hau, Jann, and Steven J. Schapiro, eds. Handbook of laboratory animal science: Essential principles and practices. Vol. 1. CRC Press, 2002.
• Gyles, Carlton L., et al., eds. Pathogenesis of bacterial infections in animals. Wiley. com, 2008.

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Helicobacter cholecystus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Franklin CL, Beckwith CS, Livingston RS, Riley LK, Gibson SV, Besch-Williford CL, etal . Isolation of a novel Helicobacter species, Helicobacter cholecystus sp. nov., from the gallbladders of Syrian hamsters with cholangiofibrosis and centrilobular pancreatitis. . J Clin Microbiol . 1996 . 34 . 12 . 2952–8 . 10.1128/JCM.34.12.2952-2958.1996 . 8940429 . 229440 .