{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Ornithobacterium | authority = Vandamme et al 1994<ref name="Vandamme et al., 1994" /> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''O. hominis'' *''O. rhinotracheale'' | type_species = Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale | type_species_authority = (Vandamme et al. 1994) }}
'''''Ornithobacterium''''' is a genus of Gram-negative, microaerophilic, rod-shaped bacteria from the family Weeksellaceae (formerly Flavobacteriaceae.<ref name="Garcia Lopez et al. 2019" />). It comprises two known species, ''O. hominis'' and ''O. rhinotracheale''. Both species inhabit the respiratory tract: ''O. hominis'' is found in the human nasopharynx<ref name= "Salter et al. 2019" /> and ''O. rhinotracheale'' in the trachea of wild and domesticated birds<ref name = "Empel & Hafez, 1999" />
== References ==
{{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Vandamme et al., 1994">{{cite journal|last1=Vandamme|first1=P|last2=Segers|first2=P|last3=Vancanneyt|first3=M|last4=Van Hove|first4=K|last5=Mutters|first5=R|last6=Hommez|first6=J|last7=Dewhirst|first7=F|last8=Paster|first8=B|last9=Kersters|first9=K|last10=Falsen|first10=E|last11=Devriese|first11=L A|last12=Bisgaard|first12=M|last13=Hinz|first13=K H|last14=Mannheim|first14=W|title=Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale gen. nov., sp. nov., Isolated from the Avian Respiratory Tract|journal=Microbial Genomics|date=1994|volume=5|issue=2|article-number=e000247|doi=10.1099/mgen.0.000247|doi-access=free|pmid=30720420|pmc=6421346}}</ref>
<ref name="Garcia Lopez et al. 2019">{{cite journal|last1=Garcia-Lopez|first1=M|last2=Meier-Kolthoff|first2=JP|last3=Tindall|first3=B J|last4=Gronow|first4=S|last5=Woyke|first5=T|last6=Kyrpides|first6=N C|last7=Hahnke|first7=R L|last8=Goker|first8=M|title=Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes|journal=Frontiers in Microbiology|date=2019|volume=10|page=2083|doi=10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083|pmid=31608019|pmc=6767994|doi-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name="Salter et al. 2019">{{cite journal|last1=Salter|first1=S|last2=Scott|first2=P|last3=Page|first3=A J|last4=Tracey|first4=A|last5=de Goffau|first5=M C|last6=Cormie|first6=C|last7=Ochoa-Montaño|first7=B|last8=Ling|first8=C L|last9=Tangmanakit|first9=J|last10=Turner|first10=P|last11=Parkhill|first11=J|title='Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis': insights gained from draft genomes obtained from nasopharyngeal swabs|journal=International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology|date=2019|volume=44|issue=1|pages=24–37|doi=10.1099/00207713-44-1-24|pmid=8123560|doi-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name = "Empel & Hafez, 1999">{{cite journal|last1=van Empel|first1=P C|last2=Hafez|first2=H M|title='Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale: A review|journal=Avian Pathology|date=1999|volume=28|issue=3|pages=217–227|doi=10.1080/03079459994704|pmid=26915377}}</ref> }}
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Category:Flavobacteria Category:Bacteria genera
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