| Cross Index | Enterococcus |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram Positive Cocci |
| Compare | aerobes:
Deinobacter
grandis Deinococcus, Marinococcus,
Micrococcus, Planococcus
, Salinicoccus
roseus facultative anaerobes: Aerococcus viridans, Enterococcus, Gemella haemolysans, Lactococcus Leuconostoc, Melissococcus pluton, Pediococcus, Saccharococcus thermophilus, Staphylococcus, Stomatococcus mucilaginsos, Streptococcus, Trichococcus flocculiformis, Vagococcus anaerobes Coprococcus, Peptococcus niger , Peptostreptococcus, Ruminococcus, Sarcina Catalase positive:Deinococcus, Micrococcus, Planococcus, Staphylococcus,, Stomatococcus mucilaginsosus |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Enterococcus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive |
| Morphology | cocci or short chains, no capsules |
| Motility | sometimes motile, few flagella |
| Specialized structures | no endospores |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Enterococcus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemnooerganotrophs |
| Oxygen | facultative anaerobe |
| pH | |
| Temperature | 10-45 oC, optimum 37 oC |
| Requirements | nutritional requirements are complex |
| Products | fermentative metabolism using many carbohydrates to procues lactiv acid but no gas, growth at pH 9.6, growth in 6.5% NaCl and growth in 40% bile, seldom reduce nitrate, usually ferment lactose |
| Enzymes | catalase negative, no cytochromes |
| Unique features | Lancefield seroligcial Group D |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | feces of vertebrates |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | may cause pyogenic infections |
| Distribution | widely distributed in nature |
| Genome | Enterococcus |
| G+C Mol % | 34-42 |
| Reference | Enterococcus |
| Several of the Streptococci that were informally known as the enterococci were foramlly transferred to the genus Enterococcus in 1984 | |
| First citation | Schleifer and Kilper-Balz 1984 IJSB 34: 31-34 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 528 |
| References | Collin et al 1984 IJSB 34:220-223 |