| Species/Subspecies: | Serratia marcescens subsp. marcescens | ||||||||||||
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| Category: | Motile | ||||||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: named after the Italian physicist Serafino Serrati Species epithet: to decay | ||||||||||||
| Significance: | [Of minor importance] | ||||||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Enterobacterales Family Yersiniaceae Genus Serratia |
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| Type Strain: | ATCC 13880 = CCUG 1647 = NCTC 10211. | ||||||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | Forms opaque colonies, which can be pigmented (pink to red) or non-pigmented. | ||||||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Motile rods (0,5-0,8 x 0,9-2,0 µm) with peritrichous flagella | ||||||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||||||
| Metabolism: | Facultatively anaerobic | ||||||||||||
| Catalase/Oxidase: | +/- | ||||||||||||
| Other Enzymes: | Citrate +, DNase +, tryptophanase - | ||||||||||||
| Biochemical Tests: | Esculinase +, methyl red +, Voges-Proskauer + | ||||||||||||
| 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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About 20 species have been described within genus Serratia, but it is almost only S. marcescens, which is pathogenic. | ||||||||||||
| Reference(s): | No. 174 | ||||||||||||
| Updated: | 2023-03-29 |