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YOKENELLA REGENSBURGEI

Class: Gamma Proteobacteria
Genus: Yokenella
Species: Yokenella regensburgei
Description: Gram-negative, rods. Motile at 36 ºC by peritrichous flagella.S-type colonies, nonpigmented. Facultatively anaerobic, growth temperature 28-37 ºC. No growth at 4 ºC.Media: Nutrient Agar or Nutrient Broth, Trypticase Soy Agar ± 5% sheep blood.
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Source: Isolated from water, human clinical specimens (stools, knee fluid, wounds), animals (sheep intestine) and insects.
Pathogenicity: An opportunistic human pathogen that phenotypically resembles Hafnia alvei.
Genbank: JN175339.1(16s rRNA)   [Genome]    [Nucleotide]
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Reference: Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, β-lactamases, and biochemical identification of Yokenella regensburgei strains,Stock, Ingo et al.,Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease,Volume 48,Issue 1,5-15.,,J. G.Holt et al., 1994. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods. Subgroup 1. Family Enterobacteriaceae. In: Begey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th-edition, Williams & Wilkins, pp175-189
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