| Morphology | Kluyvera |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram negative |
| Morphology | Small rod-shaped cells, 0.5-0.7 x 2-3 um, |
| Motility | Motile by scant peritrichous flagella |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Kluyvera |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | Facultatively anaerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | Nitrate is reduced to nitrite. Acid and gas are produced from glucose. Large amounts of a-ketoglutaric acid are formed during glucose fermentation. Most other carbohydrates are fermented, but polyhydroxyl alcohols generally are not. The majority of strains are indole-positive. Citrate is usually used as a sole carbon source. Methyl red-positive, Voges-Proskauer- negative. |
| Enzymes | Catalase- positive |
| Unique features | .... |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Occur in food, soil and sewage |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | Probably also an infrequent opportunistic pathogen of man |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Kluyvera |
| G+C Mol % | 55-57 (Bd) |
| Reference | Kluyvera |
| First citation | Farmer,J.J. III, G.R. Fanning, G.P. Huntley-Carter,B. Holmes,F.W. Hickman, c. Richard and D.J. Brenner (1981b) In list No. 7, Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. IJSB 31:382-383. |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 511 J.J. Farmer |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 181 |
| References |