Haemophilus pleuropneumonia (Matthews and Pattison, 1961; Shope, 1964) should now be accepted as the valid name of the pathogen of hemophilus pleuropneumoniae of swine, according to studies and the description by Kilian and co-workers (1978), while the name of Haemophilus parahaemolyticus should be
Gram-stain-negative, pectinolytic bacteria were repeatedly isolated from pear trees displaying symptoms of bleeding canker in China. Three strains, JS5T, LN1 and QZH3, had identical 16S rRNA gene sequences that shared 99 % similarity to the type strain of Dickeya dadantii. Phylogenetic analysis of