Species/Subspecies: | Proteus mirabilis | ||||||||
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Category: | Motile | ||||||||
Etymology: | Genus name: named after an ocean god (Proteus), who could transform himself into different shapes Species epithet: wonderful | ||||||||
Significance: | [Very important] | ||||||||
Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Enterobacterales Family Morganellaceae Genus Proteus |
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Type Strain: | ATCC 29906 = CCUG 26767 = NCTC 11938. | ||||||||
Macromorphology (smell):
| Swarms across the blood agar plate and gives no individual colonies. | ||||||||
Micromorphology: | Small (0.5 x 1-3 µm) and motile rod with peritrichous flagella. | ||||||||
Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||
Metabolism: | Fakultatively anaerobic | ||||||||
Catalase/Oxidase: | +/- | ||||||||
Other Enzymes: | Urease + | ||||||||
Biochemical Tests: | Methyl Red +, tryptophanase (indole) -, Voges-Proskauer V | ||||||||
Fermentation of carbohydrates: | D-glucose + lactose - maltose - L-rhamnose - sucrose (-) L-arabinose - cellobiose - D-mannitol - salicin - trehalose + glycerol v inulin ? raffinose - D-sorbitol - starch ? |
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Special Media:
| P. mirabilis swarms on purple agar, but not on MacConkey agar or CLED agar. | ||||||||
Disease: |
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Genome Sequence: |
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Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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Ten species have been deskribed within genus Proteus and these are found in nature as saprophytes. | ||||||||
Comment: | Swarms | ||||||||
Reference(s): | No. 174 | ||||||||
Updated: | 2022-09-21 |
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