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Providencia alcalifaciens
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| Description | Providencia alcalifaciens is a facultative anaerobe and is chemoorganotrophic. Providencia alcalifaciens can use respiratory or fermentative types of metabolism. This bacterium is associated with diarrhea in children and travelers. |
| Synonyms | Proteus inconstans;Eberthella alcalifaciens(de Salles Gomes 1944) Ewing 1962; Bacillus inconstans(Ornstein 1920)Shaw and Clarke 1955. |
| Habitat/Source | It is found in the gastrointestinal tract.Organisms are generally isolated from diarrheic stools but also from some normal stools. |
| Pathogenicity | B a c t e r e m i a a n d u r i n a r y t r a c t i n f e c t i o n s . T h e s p e c i e s i s s u s p e c t e d t o b e a c a u s a l a g e n t o f i n f a n t d i a r r h e a a n d h a s b e e n i m p l i c a t e d a s a c a u s e o f t r a v e l e r s d i a r r h e a . |
| GenBank Accession | View Genome [NZ_AKKM01000049.1] |
| Size(Mb) | 4.21 |
| GC% | 41.79 |
| Genes | 3885 |
| CDS | 3731 |
| Reference | (1).Shaw C & Clarke PH (1955) Shaw, C., and Clarke, P.H. "Biochemical classification of Proteus and Providence cultures." J. Gen. Microbiol. (1955) 13:155-161. (2) Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (9th Edition,p.214,Table 5.2).Edited by John G. Holt,The Williams & Wilkins Co. |