Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum

Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum is a bacterium of the family Oxalobacteraceae and the genus Janthinobacterium that causes a soft rot disease of Agaricus bisporus.^[3] Because of this ability, it could help treating diseases caused by fungi in humans.^[4] Analyses have shown that jagaricin, a substance which is produced by J. agaricidamnosum, could have a major part for its antimycotic activity.^[5]

Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Oxalobacteraceae
Genus:	Janthinobacterium
Species:	J. agaricidamnosum
Binomial name
Janthinobacterium agaricidamnosum Lincoln et al. 1999[1]
Type strain
CCUG 43140, CIP 106332, DSM 9628, DSMZ 3945, IAM 14973, ICMP 16941, JCM 21444, NBRC 102515, NCPPB 3945, W1r3, W1R3[2]

Etymology

J. agaricidamnosum comes from the Latin word agaricum, which means fungus and the Latin verb damnous, which means destruction (damnosusum = destructive). Agaricidamnosum = damaging mushroom.^[6]