| Cross Index | Leclercia adecarboxylata |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram negative Facultatively Anaerobic rods Enterobacteriaceae, |
| Compare | Enterobacteriaceae,
Arsenophonus nasoniae,
Buttiauxella agrestis,
Cedecea, Citrobacter, Edwardsiella, Enterobacter, Erwinia, Escherichia, Ewingella americana, Hafnia alvei, Klebsiella, Kluyvera, Leclercia adecarboxylata,
Leminorella, Moellerella wisconsensis,
Morganella morganii,
Obesumbacterium proteus,
Pantoea, Pragia fontium Proteus, Providencia, Rahnella aquatilis, Salmonella,
Serratia, Shigella, Tatumella plyseos, Xenorhabdus, Yersina, Yohenella regensburgei Vibrionacae, Aeromonas, Enhydrobacter aerosaccus, Photobacterium, Plesiomonas shigelloides, Vibrio Pasteurellaceae, Actinobacillus, Hemophilus, Pasteurella Calymmatobacterium granulomatis, Cardiobacterium hominis, Chromobacterium, Eikenella corrodens, Gardnerella vaginalis, Streptobacillus moniliformis, Zymomonas |
| Contrast | Archaea, |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Leclercia adecarboxylata |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram negative |
| Morphology | straight rods |
| Motility | peritrichous flagella |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | some strains produce a yellow pigment |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Leclercia adecarboxylata |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemorganotrophic with both a respiratory and a fermentative metabolism |
| Oxygen | facultatively anaerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | optimum 37 oC |
| Requirements | |
| Products | glucose fermented with the production of acid and gas most carbohydrates except inositol and sorbitol are fermented, nitrates reduced, uses malonate and grows on KCN. H2S negative |
| Enzymes | oxidase negative, catalase positive, indole positive, methyl red positive, Voges-Praskauer negative, Simmons citrate negative. Lysine decarboxylase negative, orithine decarboxylase negative, arginine dihydrolase negative. urease negative |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | found in human clinical samples including sputum and blood. Found in food water and environmental sources |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | occasionally an opportunistic human pathogen |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Leclercia adecarboxylata |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Leclercia adecarboxylata |
| First citation | Tamura et al 1986
Curr. Microbiol 13:179-184 Tamura et al 1987 IJSB 37:179-180 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 182 |
| References |