Proposal for Reclassification of Bacteroides asaccharolyticus, Bacteroides gingivalis, and Bacteroides endodontalis in a New Genus, Porphyromonas

作者：Haroun N. Shah, Matthew David Collins · 发表于：International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology · 年份：1988 · DOI：10.1099/00207713-38-1-128 · 被引用次数：349 · 研究领域：Oral microbiology and periodontitis research、Endodontics and Root Canal Treatments、Microbial Metabolism and Applications

The asaccharolytic, pigmented Bacteroides, Bacteroides asaccharolyticus, Bacteroides gingivalis, and Bacteroides endodontalis, form a group of relatively homogeneous species which differ markedly in biochemical and chemical properties from the type species of Bacteroides, Bacteroides fragilis (Castellani and Chalmers), such that they should not be retained within this genus. Therefore, we propose that Bacteroides asaccharolyticus (Holdeman and Moore) Finegold and Barnes, Bacteroides gingivalis Coykendall, Kaczmarek and Slots, and Bacteroides endodontalis van Steenbergen, van Winkelhoff, Mayrand, Grenier and de Graaff be reclassified in a new genus, Porphyromonas, as Porphyromonas asaccharolytica comb. nov., Porphyromonas gingivalis comb. nov., and Porphyromonas endodontalis comb. nov., respectively.