| Species/Subspecies: | Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | ||||||||||||
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| Categories: | Zoonotic; motile | ||||||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: named after the French bacteriologist A.J.E. Yersin, who in 1894 first isoleted the bacterium which causes the plague. Species epithet: from false tuberculosis. | ||||||||||||
| Significance: | [Important] | ||||||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Enterobacterales Family Yersiniaceae Genus Yersinia |
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| Type Strain: | ATCC 29833 = CCUG 5855 = NCTC 10275 | ||||||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | |||||||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Motile rods with peritrichous flagella | ||||||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||||||
| Metabolism: | Facultatively anaerobic | ||||||||||||
| Catalase/Oxidase: | +/- | ||||||||||||
| Other Enzymes: | Tryptophanase - and urease + | ||||||||||||
| Fermentation of carbohydrates: | Glucose(gas) -, Mannitol +, Rhamnose +, Sorbitol + and Sucrose -. Cf. other Yersinia spp. | ||||||||||||
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| Disease: | Animals: pseudotuberculosis.
Man: Food poisoning
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| Virulence Factors: | The virulence plasmid common to pathogenic Yersinia species encodes a number of secreted proteins denoted Yops (Yersinia outer proteins). A novel plasmid-encoded virulence determinant of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, YopK has recently been identified. | ||||||||||||
| Genome Sequence: |
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| Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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Within the genus Yersinia, 20 species have been described. All species belong to the family Enterobacteriaceae. | ||||||||||||
| Reference(s): | No. 174 | ||||||||||||
| Updated: | 2023-03-29 |