Species/Subspecies: | Salmonella enterica |
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Category: | Motile |
Etymology: | Genus name: named after the American bacteriologist D. E. Salmon. Species epithet: of the gut. |
Significance: | [Very important] |
Alternative Species Name(s): | Salmonella choleraesuis |
Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Enterobacterales Family Enterobacteriaceae Genus Salmonella |
Type Strain: | See individual subspecies. |
Macromorphology (smell): | Medium sized colonies (2-4 mm in diameter). |
Micromorphology: | Straight rods (0.7-1.5 x 2.0-5.0 µm). Most strains are peritrochous (flagella all over the surface) and ,therfore, motile. |
Gram +/Gram -: | G- |
Metabolism: | Facultatively anaerobic |
Catalase/Oxidase: | +/- |
Other Enzymes: | Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) +, ornithine decarboxylase +, tryptophanase (indole) -, urease -. |
Biochemical Tests: | Citrate +, methyl red +, Voges-Proskauer -. |
Spec. Char.: | See individual subspecies. |
Disease: | See individual subspecies. |
Hosts: | See individual subspecies. |
Clinical Picture: | See individual subspecies. |
16S rRNA Seq.: | - |
Taxonomy/phylogeny: | There are two taxonomic systems for genus Salmonella, but
the old system has mainly been abandoned. The names av the different subspecies of Salmonella enterica should
accordingly be:
Salmonella enterica
subsp. arizonae, Salmonella enterica
subsp. diarizonae, Salmonella enterica
subsp. enterica, Salmonella
enterica
subsp. houtenae, Salmonella enterica
subsp. indica och Salmonella
enterica
subsp. salamae. Only Salmonella enterica subsp. arizonae and Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica are included in VetBact Hundreds of serovars have been identified among these two subspecies and some of those that occur frequently in the latter subspecies are listed in the Term List under Salmonella serovars. . We strongly recommend the new system to be used. |
Link: | Salmonella nomenclature |
Updated: | 2023-02-22 |
News |
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