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The Genus Porphyromonas

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Black-pigmented bacteria resembling bacteroides were first reported by Oliver and Wherry (1921). The distinctive pigment produced on blood agar was considered to be melanin and consequently the organism was called Bacteroides melaninogenicum. Because of its requirement for × and V growth factors, the species was described as Haemophilus melaninogenicus in the third edition of Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (Bergey et al., 1930). However, in the fifth edition of Bergey’s Manual (Roy and Kelly, 1939), the generic name Bacteroides was adopted, as suggested by Castellani and Chalmers (1919), and H. melaninogenicus was reclassified as Bacteroides melaninogenicus (Roy and Kelly, 1939).

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Shah, H.N. (1992). The Genus Porphyromonas . In: Balows, A., Trüper, H.G., Dworkin, M., Harder, W., Schleifer, KH. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2191-1_35

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