Flavobacterium psychrophilum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
Class: | Flavobacteriia |
Order: | Flavobacteriales |
Family: | Flavobacteriaceae |
Genus: | Flavobacterium |
Species: | F. psychrophilum
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Binomial name | |
Flavobacterium psychrophilum (Bernardet and Grimont 1989) Bernardet et al. 1996[1]
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Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a psychrophilic, gram-negative bacterial rod (3-5 μm in length), belonging to the Bacteroidota. It is the causative agent of bacterial coldwater disease (BCWD) and was first isolated in 1948 during a die-off in the salmonid Oncorhynchus kisutch.[2]