Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum

Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Oxalobacteraceae
Genus:	Janthinobacterium
Species:	J. agaricidamnosum
Binomial name
Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum Lincoln et al. 1999
Type strain
CCUG 43140, CIP 106332, DSM 9628, DSMZ 3945, IAM 14973, ICMP 16941, JCM 21444, NBRC 102515, NCPPB 3945, W1r3, W1R3

Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum is an bacterium of the family Oxalobacteraceae and the genus Janthinobacterium that causes a soft rot disease of Agaricus bisporus. Because of this ability it could help treating disease which is caused by fungi in human. Analyses have shown that jagaricin, a substance which is produced by J. agaricidamnosum, could have a major part for its antimycotic activity.

J. agaricidamnosum comes from the Latin word agaricum, which means fungus and the Latin verb damnous, which means destruction (damnosusum = destructive). Agaricidamnosum = damaging mushroom.

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