Bordetella bronchiseptica

Epidemiology

• may be isolated from humans after contact with guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, cats or rodents
• rare cause of respiratory disease in humans, predominantly in the immunocompromised

Laboratory

• Bordetella bronchiseptica Ab in serum
• Bordetella bronchiseptica antigen in specimen
• Bordetella bronchiseptica DNA
• culture
  • B. bronchiseptica grows readily on conventional media.
  • glucose oxidizer; MacConkey -; urease +; motility via lateral polytrichous flagellae

More general terms

• Bordetella