Morphology | Leminorella |
CELLULAR |
Staining | Gram negative |
Morphology | straight rods |
Motility | non motile |
Specialized structures |
Division |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface |
Liquid |
Growth Parameters | Leminorella |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | chemoorganotrophic with a respiratory and a fermentative metabolism |
Oxygen | facultative anaerobe |
pH | |
Temperature | optimum 37 oC |
Requirements | |
Products | glucose, arabinose and xylose are fermented, other sugars are not, negative on KCN test, reduces nitrates, produces H2S |
Enzymes | oxidase negative, catalase positive, Indole negative, Voges Proakauer negative, lysine decaroxylase, orithine decaroxylase, and arginine dihydrolase negative urease negative |
Unique features |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity |
Distribution |
Genome | Leminorella |
G+C Mol % |
Reference | Leminorella |
First citation | Hickman-Brenner
et al 1985 J. Clin. Microbiol 21:234-239 Hickman-Brenner et al 1985 IJSB 35:375-376 |
The Prokaryotes | p |
Bergey's Determinative | p 182 |
References |