Comamonas kerstersii

Comamonas kerstersii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Genus: Comamonas
Species: C. kerstersii
Binomial name
Comamonas kerstersii
Wauters et al. 2003, sp. nov.[1]
Type strain
AF61, AFG1, Caselitz AF61, CCUG 15333, CIP 107987, DSM 16026, GUH/UCL C079, LMG 3475[2]

Comamonas kerstersii is a Gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive, motile bacterium with multitrichous polar flagella from the genus Comamonas and family Comamonadaceae.[3] C. kerstersii is a subgroup of Comamonas terrigena,[4] and has been linked to cases of perforated appendices.[5]

References

  1. http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/c/comamonas.html
  2. http://www.straininfo.net/strains/323295
  3. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/53/3/859.full.pdf
  4. Wauters, G; De Baere, T; Willems, A; Falsen, E; Vaneechoutte, M (2003). "Description of Comamonas aquatica comb. Nov. And Comamonas kerstersii sp. nov. For two subgroups of Comamonas terrigena and emended description of Comamonas terrigena". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53 (Pt 3): 859–62. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02450-0. PMID 12807213.
  5. Biswas, J. S.; Fitchett, J; O'Hara, G (2014). "Comamonas kerstersii and the perforated appendix". Journal of Clinical Microbiology 52 (8): 3134. doi:10.1128/JCM.00909-14. PMC 4136147. PMID 24829228.


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