Enterobacter cloacae

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Enterobacter cloacae
Enterobacter cloacae on Tryptic Soy Broth agar.
Enterobacter cloacae on Tryptic Soy Broth agar.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Gamma Proteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Enterobacter
Binomial name
Enterobacter cloacae
(Jordan 1890)
Hormaeche and Edwards 1960
Subspecies

E. c. subsp. cloacae
E. c. subsp. dissolvens

Synonyms

Bacillus cloacae Jordan 1890
Bacterium cloacae (Jordan 1890) Lehmann and Neumann 1896
Cloaca cloacae (Jordan 1890) Castellani and Chalmers 1919
Aerobacter cloacae (Jordan 1890) Bergey et al. 1923
Aerobacter cloacae (Jordan 1890) Hormaeche and Edwards 1958
Erwinia dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Burkholder 1948
Pseudomonas dissolvens Rosen 1922
Bacterium dissolvens Rosen 1922
Phytomonas dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Rosen 1926
Aplanobacter dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Rosen 1926
Aerobacter dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Waldee 1945
Enterobacter dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Brenner et al. 1988

Enterobacter cloacae is a clinically significant Gram-negative, facultatively-anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. Template:Proteobacteria-stub Template:WikiDoc Sources

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