Species/Subspecies: | Pantoea agglomerans | ||||||||
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Categories: | Motile; primarily of interest in human medicin | ||||||||
Etymology: | Genus name: from diverse (geographical and ecological) sources. Species epithet: forming into a ball. | ||||||||
Significance: | P. agglomerans is an environmental bacterium that can sometimes be found in samples from animals, but has probably no clinical significance.
P. agglomerans has been reported to cause diseases in plants and humans. |
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Alternative Species Name(s): | Enterobacter agglomerans | ||||||||
Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Enterobacterales Family Erwiniaceae Genus Pantoea |
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Type Strain: | ATCC 27155 = CCUG 539 = NCTC 9381. | ||||||||
Macromorphology (smell): | Forms mucoid yellowish colonies. | ||||||||
Micromorphology: | Straight rods (0.5-1.0 x 1.0-3.0 µm), which are peritrichous. | ||||||||
Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||
Metabolism: | Facultatively anaerobic | ||||||||
Catalase/Oxidase: | ?/- | ||||||||
Other Enzymes: | Esculinase +, tryptophanase -, (= indole -), urease - | ||||||||
Biochemical Tests: | Citrate +, Voges-Proskauer + | ||||||||
Fermentation of carbohydrates: | D-glucose ? lactose v maltose + L-rhamnose (+) sucrose + L-arabinose + cellobiose v D-mannitol + salicin + trehalose + glycerol (+) inulin v raffinose v D-sorbitol - starch ? |
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Taxonomy/phylogeny: | About 30 species have been described within the genus Pantoea. | ||||||||
Reference(s): | No. 174 | ||||||||
Updated: | 2022-04-13 |
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