Table 3.

Differential characteristics of type strains of Brachybacterium, Devriesea, and Dermabacter species: 1, B. vulturis VM2412^T; 2, B. avium VR2415^T; 3, B. ginsengisoli DCY80^T (Hoang et al., 2014); 4, B. faecium NCIB 9860^T (Collins et al., 1988); 5, B. squillarum M-6-3^T (Park et al., 2011); 6, B. nesterenkovii 35^T (Gvozdyak et al., 1992); 7, Devriesea agamarum IMP2^T (Martel et al., 2008); 8, Dermabacter vaginalis AD1-86^T (Chang et al., 2016); 9, D. hominis S69^T (Jones and Collins, 1988).

Characteristics	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Isolation source	Fecal sample of a Vultur gryphus	Fecal sample of a Vultur gryphus	Soil of a ginseng field	Poultry deep litter	Salt-fermented seafood	Milk products	Liver of a female Agama impalearis	Vaginal fluid of a Korean female	Forearm of healthy adults
O2 requirement	Aerobic	Aerobic	Aerobic	Aerobic	Aerobic	Facultative anaerobic	Facultative anaerobic	Facultative anaerobic	Facultative anaerobic
Catalase	+	+	+	+	-	ND	+	+	+
Oxidase	-	-	-	-	-	ND	-	-	-
Cell wall sugars	Ribose, glucose and galactose	Ribose, glucose and galactose	ND	Glucose, galactose	ND	Glucose, galactose and rhamnose	ND	Ribose, glucose and galactose	ND
Polar lipids†	DPG, PG, PE, GL	DPG, PG, PE, GL, PL	DPG, PG, GL, PL	DPG, PG, GL, PL	DPG, PG, GL, PL	ND	PG, PL, GL	DPG, PG, GL, AL	DPG, PG, PL, DGDG
Major menaquinone	MK-7	MK-7	MK-7	MK-7	MK-7	MK-7	MK-8	MK-9	MK-9

+, Positive; -, negative; ND, no data. ^†DPG, diphosphatidylglycerol; PG, phosphatidylglycerol; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; GL, unidentified glycolipid(s); PL, unidentified phospholipid(s); AL, unidentified aminolipid(s); DGDG, diglycosyldiacylglycerol.