| Cross Index | Plesiomonas shigelloides |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods Vibrionacae |
| 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 | Plesiomonas shigelloides |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram negative |
| Morphology | Cells round-ended, straight, rod-shaped, 0.8-1.0 x 3.0 um |
| Motility | Motile by polar flagella, generally lophotrichous |
| Specialized structures | Resting stages not known |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Plesiomonas shigelloides |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | Facultatively anaerobic having both a respiratory and a fermentative type of metabolism |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | Most strains grow on mineral media containing ammonium salts as a sole nitrogen source and glucose as a sole source of carbon |
| Products | Carbohydrates are catabolized with production of acid but no gas.. |
| Enzymes | Oxidase* and catalase reactions are positive. Negative for diastase, lipase, proteinases. Positive for lysine, ornithine and arginine decarboxylases (Moller technique). |
| Unique features | Most strains are sensitive to vibriostatic agent 0/129 (2,4-diamino-6,7-diisopropyl pteridine). |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Occur in fish and other aquatic animals and in a variety of mammals; probably does not belong to the normal intestinal flora of man, |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | can cause diarrhea in man |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Plesiomonas shigelloides |
| G+C Mol % | 51 (Ch)(Sebald and Veron 1963). |
| Macdonell and Colwell 1985, Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 6: 171-182 recommended that Pleisomonas shigelloides be transferred to the genus Proteus because tis 5S RNA is closely related to that of Proteus mirabilis. Such a change would cause problems in the phenotypic defininition of the genus Proteus (Bergey's determinatve 9th ed p 192) |
| Reference | Plesiomonas shigelloides |
| First citation | Habs,H. and R.H.W. Schubert (1962) Uber die biochemischen Merkmale und die taxonomische Stellung von Pseudomonas shigelloides (bader). Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. I Orig. 186:316-327 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 548 R. H.W. Schubert |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 192 |
| References |