Pasteurella

Translingual

Etymology

Named after French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) +‎ -ella (taxonomic suffix).

Proper noun

Pasteurella f

A taxonomic genus within the family Pasteurellaceae – gram-negative facultatively anaerobic nonmotile rod bacteria that stain differentially at the poles of the cell and include several important pathogens especially of domestic animals.

Hypernyms

(genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Enterobacterales - order; Pasteurellaceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Pasteurella multocida - type species; Pasteurella canis, Pasteurella dagmatis, Pasteurella felis, Pasteurella oralis - selected other species

References

Pasteurella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pasteurella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Pasteurella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Pasteurella in the Genome Taxonomy Database

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