Brevundimonas
{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}
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| name = Brevundimonas
| domain = Bacteria
| phylum = Pseudomonadota
| classis = Alphaproteobacteria
| ordo = Caulobacterales
| familia = Caulobacteraceae
| genus = Brevundimonas
| genus_authority = Segers et al. 1994
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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The Brevundimonas are a genus of bacteria. They are Gram-negative, non-fermenting, aerobic bacilli. The Brevundimonas species are ubiquitous in the environment but are rarely isolated from clinical samples.,{{cite journal | vauthors = Lee MR, Huang YT, Liao CH, Chuang TY, Lin CK, Lee SW, Lai CC, Yu CJ, Hsueh PR | display-authors = 6 | title = Bacteremia caused by Brevundimonas species at a tertiary care hospital in Taiwan, 2000-2010 | journal = European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases | volume = 30 | issue = 10 | pages = 1185–91 | date = October 2011 | pmid = 21461849 | doi = 10.1007/s10096-011-1210-5 }} although numbers are increasing.{{cite journal | vauthors = Ryan MP, Pembroke JT | title = Brevundimonas spp: Emerging global opportunistic pathogens | journal = Virulence | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = 480–493 | date = January 2018 | pmid = 29484917 | pmc = 5955483 | doi = 10.1080/21505594.2017.1419116 }} Two species of Brevundimonas originally classified under the genus Pseudomonas have been re-classified by Seger et al. as Brevundimonas vesicularis and Brevundimonas diminuta.{{cite journal | vauthors = Panasiti V, Devirgiliis V, Mancini M, Curzio M, Rossi M, Fioriti D, Pietropaolo V, Nicosia R, Gallinelli C, Chiarini F, Pecorini G, Calvieri S | display-authors = 6 | title = A cutaneous infection caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis: a case report | journal = International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology | volume = 21 | issue = 2 | pages = 457–61 | date = April 2008 | pmid = 18547490 | doi = 10.1177/039463200802100226 | doi-access = free }}
Etymology
The name Brevundimonas derives from:
Latin adjective brevis, short; Latin feminine gender noun unda, a wave; Latin feminine gender noun monas (μονάς), nominally meaning "a unit", but in effect meaning a bacterium; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Brevundimonas, bacteria with short wavelength flagella.{{lpsn|b/brevundimonas.html|Brevundimonas|vanc}}
Members of the genus Brevundimonas can be referred to as brevundimonad (viz. Trivialisation of names).
Survival on Mars
Brevundimonas is one of few bacteria showing high survival rates under simulated Martian conditions.{{cite journal | vauthors = Dartnell LR, Hunter SJ, Lovell KV, Coates AJ, Ward JM | title = Low-temperature ionizing radiation resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans and Antarctic Dry Valley bacteria | journal = Astrobiology | volume = 10 | issue = 7 | pages = 717–32 | date = September 2010 | pmid = 20950171 | doi = 10.1089/ast.2009.0439 | bibcode = 2010AsBio..10..717D }} Results from one of these experimental irradiation experiments, combined with previous radiation modeling, indicate that Brevundimonas sp. MV.7 em-placed only 30 cm deep in Martian dust could survive the cosmic radiation for up to 100,000 years before suffering 106 population reduction.{{clarify|date=December 2020}}
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