| Species/Subspecies: | Salmonella enterica subsp. arizonae | ||||||||
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| Categories: | Zoonotic; motile; in the normal flora | ||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: named after the American bacteriologist D. E. Salmon Species epithet: of the gut Subspecies epithet: of Arizona | ||||||||
| Significance: | [Important] | ||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Enterobacterales Family Enterobacteriaceae Genus Salmonella |
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| Type Strain: | ATCC 13314 = NCTC 8297 | ||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | |||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Motile rods with peritrichous flagella | ||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||
| Metabolism: | Facultatively anaerobic | ||||||||
| Catalase/Oxidase: | +/- | ||||||||
| Biochemical Tests: | Citrate + | ||||||||
| Fermentation of carbohydrates: | D-glucose + lactose (-) maltose + L-rhamnose + sucrose - L-arabinose + cellobiose - D-mannitol + salicin - trehalose + glycerol (-) inulin ? raffinose - D-sorbitol + starch ? |
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| Reservoir: | Reptiles, particularly snakes. | ||||||||
| Disease: | Causes no disease in cold-blooded animals. May rarely give infections in infants and immunocompromised individuals. |
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| Hosts: | Often in cold-blooded animals, especially snakes. Also occurs in the environment. | ||||||||
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Two species have been described within genus Salmonella. S. enterica belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae and is closely related to members of the genera Escherichia and Shigella. In fact, all members of these three genera Shigella form a monophyletic cluster (see Fig. 157:1 to the left). | ||||||||
| Comment: | There are about 100 different serovars | ||||||||
| Reference(s): | No. 176 | ||||||||
| Link: | Salmonella nomenclature | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2023-03-29 |
