Flashcards: Enterobacteria

Coliform bacteria are a commonly used indicator of sanitary quality of foods and water.

Fire blight, also written fireblight, is a contagious disease affecting apples, pears, and some other members of the family Rosaceae.

Bacterial wilt is a cucurbit disease caused by the pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila, a Gram-negative bacterium in the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Klebsiella oxytoca is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that is closely related to K.

Klebsiella terrigena is a Gram-negative bacterial species of the genus Klebsiella.

The genus Raoultella is composed of Gram-negative, oxidase-negative, aerobic, nonmotile, capsulated, facultatively anaerobic rods (formerly designated Klebsiella) in the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Ty21a is a live attenuated bacterial vaccine that protects against typhoid.

Xenorhabdus is a genus of motile, gram-negative bacteria from the family of the Enterobacteriaceae.

Klebsiella granulomatis is Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Klebsiella known to cause the sexually transmitted disease granuloma inguinale (or donovanosis).

Cronobacter turicensis is a bacterium.

Pectobacterium is a bacterial genus of the family Enterobacteriaceae; it used to be a member of the genus Erwinia, which was split into three genera: Erwinia, Pectobacterium, and Brenneria.

Enterobacter taylorae is a Gram-negative bacteria formerly known as Enteric Group 19, and also known as Enterobacter cancerogenus.

Kluyvera ascorbata is a bacterium, the type species of its genus.

Kluyvera cryocrescens is a bacterium, the type species of its genus.

Pectobacterium betavasculorum is a plant pathogenic bacterium that infects beets.

Pectobacterium wasabiae is a plant pathogenic bacterium that was first reported to cause disease on wasabi plants.

Photorhabdus temperata is a species of bacteria.

Regiella insecticola is a species of bacteria, that lives as a symbiont of aphids.

Erwinia pyrifoliae is a Gram-negative bacterium and a phytopathogen of Asian pear trees (Pyrus pyrifolia), causing necrotic disease.

Serratia entomophila is a species of bacteria that like its cogenerate species uses itaconate.

Sodalis is a genus of bacteria within the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Serratia symbiotica is a species of bacteria that lives as a symbiont of aphids.

Sodalis glossinidius is a species of bacteria, the type and only species of its genus.

Wigglesworthia glossinidia is a species of gram-negative bacteria which was isolated from the gut of the tsetse fly.

Plesiomonas shigelloides is a species of bacteria that was formerly classified in the family Vibrionaceae, but now most microbiologists agree that a better classification is in the family Enterobacteriaceae (see box on the right).

Buchnera aphidicola, a member of the Proteobacteria, is the primary endosymbiont of aphids, and has been studied in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum.

Enterobacter cowanii is a Gram-negative, motile, facultatively-anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Enterobacter.

Blochmannia is a genus of symbiotic bacteria found in carpenter ant.

Morganella morganii is a species of gram-negative bacteria.

Proteus vulgaris is a rod-shaped, nitrate-reducing, indole+ and catalase-positive, hydrogen sulfide-producing, Gram-negative bacterium that inhabits the intestinal tracts of humans and animals.

Dickeya didantii is a gram-negative bacillus that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Klebsiella pneumonia is a form of bacterial pneumonia associated with Klebsiella pneumoniae.

Brenneria is a genus of Enterobacteria, containing mostly pathogens of woody plants.

Brenneria salicis is a Gram-negative bacterium that is pathogenic on plants.

Pantoea is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, recently separated from the Enterobacter genus.

Erwinia psidii is a Gram-negative bacterium and a phytopathogen of the Common Guava (Psidium guajava), causing rot in branches, flowers and fruits.

Ewingella americana is a Gram-negative rod, and the only species in the genus Ewingella.

Pantoea agglomerans is a Gram-negative bacterium that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Shigella sonnei is a species of Shigella.

Enterobacter aerogenes is a Gram-negative, oxidase negative, catalase positive, citrate positive, indole negative, rod-shaped bacterium.

Serratia proteamaculans is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium.

Proteus is a genus of Gram-negative Proteobacteria.

Citrobacter is a genus of Gram-negative coliform bacteria in the Enterobacteriaceae family.

Enterobacter is a genus of common Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Shigella flexneri is a species of Gram-negative bacteria in the genus Shigella that can cause diarrhea in humans.

Pectobacterium carotovorum is a bacterium of the family Enterobacteriaceae; it used to be a member of the genus Erwinia.

Samsonia is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Shimwellia is a genus of gram-negative bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family.

Klebsiella variicola is a species of bacteria which was originally identified as a benign endosymbiont in plants, but has since been associated with disease in humans and cattle as well.

Macromonas bipunctata is a Gram-negative, colorless, and heterotrophic sulfur bacterium of the genus Macromonas.

Cronobacter is the officially recognised bacterial genus name for the organism which before 2007 was named Enterobacter sakazakii.

Providencia is a Gram-negative, motile bacterium of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Serratia marcescens (/sɛˈreɪʃjə mɑː(r)ˈsɛs.sɛnz/) is a species of rod-shaped Gram negative bacterium in the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Edwardsiella is a Gram-negative, fermentative genus of bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Rouxiella chamberiensis is a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family, and is the only member of the genus Rouxiella described so far.

Proteus penneri is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium.

Stewart's wilt is a serious bacterial disease of corn caused by the bacterium Pantoea stewartii.

Photorhabdus is a genus of bioluminescent, gram-negative bacilli which lives symbiotically within entomopathogenic nematodes, hence the name photo (which means light-producing) and rhabdus (rod-shape).

Yokenella is a genus of bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Salmonella enterica (formerly Salmonella choleraesuis) is a rod-shaped, flagellated, facultative anaerobic, Gram-negative bacterium and a member of the genus Salmonella.

Shigella boydii is a Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Shigella.

Serratia is a genus of Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, endosporeforming, rod-shaped bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family.

Cronobacter malonaticus, formerly considered a subspecies of Cronobacter sakazakii, is a bacterium.

Cronobacter dublinensis is a bacterium.

Cronobacter muytjensii is a bacterium.

Hamiltonella defensa is a species of bacteria, that lives as a endosymbiont of aphids.

Proteus mirabilis is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium.

Cronobacter is a genus of Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Pectobacterium atrosepticum is a species of bacterium.

Cedecea is a genus of extremely rare bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Dickeya is a genus of the family Enterobacteriaceae that consists mainly of pathogens from herbaceous plants.

Dickeya solani is a bacterium that causes a disease that affects potato crops.

The Enterobacteriales are an order of gram-negative bacteria that includes only one family which is the Enterobacteriaceae.

Salmonella bongori is a pathogenic bacterium belonging to the genus Salmonella, and was earlier known as Salmonella subspecies V or S.