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Volume 24, Number 9—September 2018
Etymologia

Etymologia: Granulicatella

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Granulicatella [granʹyoo-lik-ə-telʺə]

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Thumbnail of Blood agar plates with (left) and without (right) pyridoxal supplement from a study of neonatal Granulicatella elegans bacteremia, London, UK. Image from Neonatal Granulicatella elegans Bacteremia, London, UK; Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 19, no. 7, July 2013.

Figure. Blood agar plates with (left) and without (right) pyridoxal supplement from a study of neonatal Granulicatella elegans bacteremia, London, UK. Image from Neonatal Granulicatella elegans Bacteremia, London, UK; Emerging Infectious Diseases...

In 1961, Frenkel and Hirsch described strains of streptococci isolated from cases of bacterial endocarditis that grew only in the presence of other bacteria, around which they formed satellite colonies, or in media enriched with sulfhydryl compounds, such as cysteine. These nutritionally variant streptococci were eventually assigned the species Streptococcus defectivus (Latin for “deficient”) and S. adjacens (because it grows adjacent to other bacteria) (Figure).

On the basis of later research, these were placed in a new genus Abiotrophia (Greek a, “un-,” + bios, “life,” + trophe, “nutrition”) as A. adiacens and A. defectiva. In 1998 and 1999, 2 additional species of Abiotrophia were described, A. elegans (Latin, “fastidious,” referring to fastidious growth requirements) and A. balaenopterae (isolated from a minke whale [Balaenoptera acutorostrata]). In 2000, these new species, along with A. adiacens, were reclassified in the new genus Granulicatella (Latin granulum, “small grain,” + catella, “small chain”).

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DOI: 10.3201/eid2409.et2409

Original Publication Date: July 31, 2018

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