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Erysipelothrix is a facultatively anerobic, gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium classified as order Firmicutes, class Erysipelothrichi, family Erysipelothricaceae, and genus Erysipelothrix [1], and grouped into 26 serovars and group N without type-specific antigen. Formerly E. rhusiopathiae was a single species of the genus. At present, it is comprised of at least three species, E. rhusiopathiae, E. tonsillarum [2], and E. inopinata [3], and other possible new species [4–6]. Among them, E. rhusiopathiae is the most important as the causal agent of erysipelas in pigs, turkeys, sheep, and erysipeloid in humans [7–9]. Erysipelothrix is isolated from erysipelas of many other animals sporadically, and also from healthy cattle, sheep, chickens, the surface of fishes and crustaceans [10]. Although E. tonsillarum is nonpathogenic for swine [4, 6] and chickens [11], it is occasionally isolated from canine endocarditis [12]. E. inopinata was isolated from vegetative peptone. Takahashi et al. [4] showed the relationship between serovars and species; however, they do not always link to each other and it is difficult to identify the species by biochemical tests. For this reason, molecular typing is essential to the species identification of Erysipelothrix and it is becoming a useful tool for the epidemiological study.

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Imada, Y. (2013). Erysipelothrix . In: de Filippis, I., McKee, M. (eds) Molecular Typing in Bacterial Infections. Infectious Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-185-1_22

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