Taylorella is a genus comprising Gram-negative, short rod-shaped, chemoorganotrophic bacteria that include species that are the causative agents of contagious equine metritis.[1][2] The name Taylorella serves as a dedication to C.E.D. Taylor, the scientist who identified the only species originally included in this genus.[1][2][3] They are non-motile microaerophiles that are able to be isolated in pure culture on chocolate agar. .[1][3]
^ abcTrujillo, ME; Dedysh, S; DeVos, P; Hedlund, B; Kämpfer, P; Rainey, FA; Whitman, WB (2015). Taylorella. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and bacteria.
^ abSchulman, Martin Lance; May, Catherine Edith; Keys, Bronwyn; Guthrie, Alan John (November 2013). ""Contagious equine metritis: Artificial reproduction changes the epidemiologic paradigm"". Veterinary Microbiology. 167 (1–2): 2–8. doi:10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.12.021. PMID23332460.
^ abSugimoto, C; Isayama, Y; Sakazaki, R; Kuramochi, S (1983). "Transfer of Haemophilus equigenitalis Taylor et al. 1978 to the genus Taylorella gen. nov. as Taylorella equigenitalis comb. nov". Curr Microbiology. 9 (3): 155–162. doi:10.1007/BF01567289. S2CID34944309.