Pseudocitrobacter vendiensis
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Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacterales, Family Enterobacteriaceae, Genus Pseudocitrobacter,
Pseudocitrobacter vendiensis
Kampfer et al. 2020.
Gram-negative, short rods (approx. 2-3 µm in length and 1 µm in width). Motile.
Non-haemolytic. Grows on  Columbia blood agar and Mueller-Hinton agar at 37 ºC.  
Facultatively anaerobic.
Isolated from fecal samples from hospitalized patients in Denmark.
Undetermined.
  1. Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Raza MW, Abbasi SA, Perry JD. Pseudocitrobacter gen. nov., a novel genus of the Enterobacteriaceae with
    two new species Pseudocitrobacter faecalis sp. nov., and Pseudocitrobacter anthropi sp. nov, isolated from fecal samples from
    hospitalized patients in Pakistan. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:17-22.
  2. Kampfer P, Fuglsang-Damgaard D, Overballe-Petersen S, Hasman H, Hammerum AM, Fuursted K, Blom J, Glaeser SP, Hansen
    F. Taxonomic reassessment of the genus Pseudocitrobacter using whole genome sequencing: Pseudocitrobacter anthropi is a
    later heterotypic synonym of Pseudocitrobacter faecalis and description of Pseudocitrobacter vendiensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol
    Microbiol 2020; 70:1315-1320.
Positive results for acid and alkaline phosphatase, beta-galactosidase (ONPG),
leucine arylamidase, nitrate reduction, acid production from L-arabinose, glucose,
lactose, D-maltose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, L-rhamnose, salicin, D-trehalose, and D-xylose.
Can utilize as sole carbon source acetate, L-alanine, L-arabinose, L-aspartate, cellobiose, citrate (Simmons), D-fructose, fumarate,
D-galactose, glucose, methyl D-glycoside, 3-hydroxybenzoate, DL-lactate, lactose, L-malate, maltitol, maltose, D-mannitol,
D-mannose, N-acetyl-D-galactosamine, phenylacetate, L-phenylalanine, L-proline, propionate, putrescine, pyruvate, rhamnose,
D-ribose, salicin, L-serine, trehalose, and D-xylose.

Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, alpha-chymotrypsin, cysteine arylamidase, esculin hydrolysis, esterase (C4), esterase
lipase (C8), alpha-fucosidase, alpha- and beta-galactosidase, alpha- and beta-glucosidase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase,
beta-glucuronidase, H
2S production, indole production, lipase (C14), alpha-mannosidase, oxidase, ornithine decarboxylase,
phenylalanine deaminase, trypsin, urease, valine arylamidase, Voges-Proskauer test, acid production from D-adonitol, D-arabitol,
cellobiose, D-dulcitol, D-erythritol, L-inositol, mellibiose, raffinose, sucrose, and D-sorbitol.
No utilization of malonate, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, cis-aconitate, trans-aconitate, adipate, adonitol, beta-alanine, D-arabitol, arbutin,  
azelate, dulcitol, erythritol, glutarate, L-histidine, 4-hydoxybenzoate, DL-3-hydroxybutyrate, inositol, itaconate, L-leucine, melibiose,
mannitol, alpha-D-melibiose, mesaconate, L-ornithine, raffinose, sucrose, sorbitol, suberate or L-tryptophan.
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