brucella anthropi brucella anthropi brucella anthropi is a bacterium. the type strain is strain cip 82.115 (= cip 14970 = nctc 12168 = lmg 3331). o. anthropi strains are rod-shaped, aerobic, gram-negative, non-pigmented and motile by means of peritrichous flagella. they are emerging as major opportunistic pathogens. brucella anthropi scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: brucellaceae genus: brucella species: b. anthropi binomial name brucella anthropi(holmes et al. 1988) hördt et al. 2020 synonyms ochrobactrum anthropi holmes et al. 1988