Talk:Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

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What a stupid name. Couldn't they have called it something with less than 15 syllables? --78.86.137.221 (talk) 15:29, 18 May 2008 (UTC) Bacterium actinomycetem comitans’ was described by Klinger (1912) as coccobacillary bacteria isolated together with Actinomyces from actinomycotic lesions of man. It was reclassified as Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans by Topley & Wilson (1929) and as Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans by Potts et al. (1985). The species has attracted attention because of its association with localized aggressive periodontitis (Slots & Ting, 1999; Haubek et al., 2001).

Cited from: Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen and Mogens Kilian Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56 (2006), 2135-2146; 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 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelsella (talk • contribs) 19:00, 2 May 2009 (UTC)