Aggregatibacter

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title: "Aggregatibacter" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bacteria-genera", "pasteurellales"] description: "Genus of bacteria" topic_path: "general/bacteria-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregatibacter" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of bacteria ::

| taxon = Aggregatibacter | authority = Nørskov-Lauritsen and Kilian, 2006 | type_species = Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans | subdivision_ranks = Species

Aggregatibacter is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria), which contains three species, namely:

• A. actinomycetemcomitans (Klinger 1912) Nørskov-Lauritsen and Kilian 2006, (type species of the genus); (from Greek noun grc (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), a beam; Greek mukēs -ētos, mushroom or other fungus; Neo-Latin actinomyces -etis, an actinomycete; Latin comitans, accompanying; Neo-Latin actinomycetemcomitans, accompanying an actinomycete)
• A. aphrophilus (Khairat 1940) Nørskov-Lauritsen and Kilian 2006, (from Ancient Greek grc, foam; New Latin philus from Greek grc (φίλος) meaning friend, loving; New Latin aphrophilus, foam-loving)
• A. segnis (Kilian 1977) Nørskov-Lauritsen and Kilian 2006, (from Latin segnis, slow, sluggish, inactive)

References

References

1. (2006). "Reclassification of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Haemophilus aphrophilus, Haemophilus paraphrophilus and Haemophilus segnis as Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans gen. Nov., comb. Nov., Aggregatibacter aphrophilus comb. Nov. And Aggregatibacter segnis comb. Nov., and emended description of Aggregatibacter aphrophilus to include V factor-dependent and V factor-independent isolates". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

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