| Cross Index | Kurthia |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Regular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods |
| Compare | Brochothrix, Carnobacterium, Caryophanon, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, Kurthia, Lactobacillus, Listeria, Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Kurthia |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive |
| Morphology | regular unbranched rods that often occur in chains. Older cultures are usually composed of coccoid cells |
| Motility | Usually motile by peritrichous flagella |
| Specialized structures | non sporing |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Kurthia typically produces a "birds feather growth on nutrient gelatin slants |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Kurthia |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | strict aerobe |
| pH | |
| Temperature | grows at 35 C. |
| Requirements | |
| Products | neither produce acid from carbohydrates in peptone media nor hydrogen sulfide |
| Enzymes | catalase positive |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | . It is commonly isolated from meat after storage for a few days at 16 C. It is likely that the meat becomes contaminated in the abattoir. Commonly isolated from the feces of farm animals especially chickens and pigs. It has been isolated from the stomach and intestinal contents of the Susuman mammoth. |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | isolated from various clinical materials, most commonly the feces of patients suffering from diarrhea but there is no evidence of pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Kurthia |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Kurthia |
| First citation | Trevisan ,V. 1885. Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi di Batteriacee. Atti Accad. Fis-Med_Stat Milano (Ser 4) 3:92-107 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1255 R. M. Keddie and S. Shaw |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 566 |
| References |