1、菌株名称：摩氏摩根氏菌摩根亚种 Morganella morganii subsp. morganii
3、生物危害程度：四类
冻干菌种和斜面试管请置于2-8℃冷藏。
1、营养肉汁琼脂：蛋白胨 5.0g，牛肉浸取物 3.0g，NaCl 5.0g，琼脂 15.0g，蒸馏水 1.0L，pH7.0。[注] 培养芽孢杆菌时加入5mg MnSO4·H2O，则有利于产生芽孢。
2、需氧类型：好氧
3、培养温度：37℃，24h
1、菌种常规培养时间：细菌24-48h，酵母72h，霉菌5-7d，大型真菌7-10d。
2、试管斜面请尽快转接，存放时间不得超过3个月。
3、初次使用请按照本说明书推荐条件进行活化，如使用其它类型培养基或培养条件造成菌种失活等损失，泰斯拓生物不负责任。
4、带菌废弃物应高压灭菌处理后丢弃。
Morganella morganii is a species of Gram-negative bacteria. It has a commensal relationship within the intestinal tracts of humans, mammals, and reptiles as normal flora. Although M. morganii has a wide distribution, it is considered an uncommon cause of community-acquired infection and it is most often encountered in postoperative and other nosocomial infections such as urinary tract infections.
Morganella morganii was first described by a British bacteriologist H. de R. Morgan in 1906 as Morgan's bacillus. Morgan isolated the bacterium from stools of infants who were noted to have had "summer diarrhea". Later in 1919, Winslow et al. named Morgan's bacillus, Bacillus morganii. In 1936, though, Rauss renamed B. morganii as Proteus morganii. Fulton, in 1943, showed that B. columbensis and P. morganii were the same and defined the genus Morganella, due to the DNA-DNA hybridization. M. morganii has two subspecies – M. m. morganii and M. m. columbensis.However, in 1962, a review article by Ewing reported that M. columbensis had been re-identified as Escherichia coli, thereby removing that organism from the genus Morganella.
Morganella morganii is facultatively anaerobic and oxidase-negative. Its colonies appear off-white and opaque in color, when grown on agar plates. M. morganii cells are straight rods, about 0.6–0.7 μm in diameter and 1.0–1.7 μm in length. This organism moves by way of peritrichous flagella, but some strains do not form flagella at 30 °C.
M. morganii can produce the enzyme catalase, so is able to convert hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen. This is a common enzyme found in most living organisms. In addition, it is indole test-positive meaning that this organism can split tryptophan to indole, pyruvate, and ammonia. Methyl red tests positive in M. morganii, an indicator dye that turns red due to the bacterium's acid production during fermentation. Although a rare human pathogen, M. morganii has been reported as a cause of urinary tract infections, nosocomial surgical wound infections, peritonitis, central nervous system infection, endophthalmitis, pneumonia, chorioamnionitis, neonatal sepsis, pyomyositis, necrotizing fasciitis, and arthritis. Numerous cases of nosocomial infection have been described, usually as postsurgical wound infections or urinary tract infections. Patients in whom bacteremia develops are typically immunocompromised, diabetic, or elderly, or have at least one serious underlying disease.
M. morganii consists of two species: M. morganii and M. sibonii. M. morganii has been regarded as a normally harmless opportunistic pathogen, but some strains carry "antibiotic-resistant plasmids" and have been associated with nosocomial outbreaks of infections. Several reports indicate M. morganii causes sepsis, ecthyma, endophthalmitis, and chorioamnionitis, and more commonly urinary tract infections, soft tissue infections, septic arthritis, meningitis, and bacteremia, in the latter 2 cases with frequent fatal consequences.
In a rare case published in 2003, a patient presented with bilateral necrosis of both upper and lower eyelids. Upon microbial analysis, the areas were shown to have heavy growth of M. morganii.
Treatment of M. morganii infections may include:
Ticarcillin
Piperacillin
Ciprofloxacin
Third-generation and fourth-generation cephalosporins
A study conducted at the University Hospital at Heraklion, Crete, Greece showed a 92% success rate in the use of these antibiotics.
However, some M. morganii strains are resistant to penicillin, ampicillin/sulbactam, oxacillin, first-generation and second-generation cephalosporins, macrolides, lincosamides, fosfomycin, colistin, and polymyxin B. The emergence of highly resistant strains of M. morganii have been associated with use of third-generation cephalosporins.
Polymicrobial infections are most abundantly caused by this microbe which additionally damages the skin, soft tissues, and urogenital tract; these can be cured through use of the aforementioned antibiotics.
