• Characteristics
  1. Facultative Anaerobic Gram Negative Rods
  • Types
  • Vibrio (motile with single polar flagellum)
  • Types
  • Aeromonas (motile with single polar flagellum)
  1. Aeromonas Hydrophila
  2. Aeromonas shigelloides
  • Types
  • Campylobacter (motile with single polar flagellum)
  1. Campylobacter jejuni
    1. Common cause of Gastroenteritis
  2. Campylobacter fetus
    1. Foodborne Illness in Immunocompromised hosts and may infect prosthetic materials, cause Meningitis
  • Types
  • Helicobacter (motile with multiple flagella)