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The Family Aerococcaceae

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The family Aerococcaceae is a member of the order Lactobacillales, phylum Firmicutes. It comprises the genera Aerococcus, Abiotrophia, Dolosicoccus, Eremococcus, Facklamia, Globicatella, and Ignavigranum and has been created on the basis of the phylogenetic position of its members as analyzed by comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Members are Gram-positive, nonmotile and non-spore-forming, facultative anaerobic, catalase-negative ovoid cocci or coccibacilli. Lysine has been reported to occur as the diagnostic diamino acid in the peptidoglycan. The habitat includes a wide range of environments, e.g., human specimens, household, schoolrooms, yard, street and hospital environments, and marine sites, and they have also been reported in human infections. This chapter is a short update of species described since 2005, which are not covered in the chapter Aerococcaceae in Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edition.

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  1. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Stephen Lory

  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

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Stackebrandt, E. (2014). The Family Aerococcaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30120-9_349

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