Enterobacter cloacae
| Enterobacter cloacae | |
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| Enterobacter cloacae on tryptic soy agar. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacteriales |
| Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Enterobacter |
| Binomial name | |
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Enterobacter cloacae (Jordan 1890) Hormaeche and Edwards 1960 |
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| Subspecies | |
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E. c. subsp. cloacae |
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| Synonyms | |
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Bacillus cloacae Jordan 1890 |
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E. c. subsp. cloacae
E. c. subsp. dissolvens
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.
In microbiology labs, E. cloacae is frequently grown at 30 °C on nutrient agar or broth or at 35 °C in tryptic soy broth. It is a rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium, is facultatively anaerobic, and bears peritrichous flagella. It is oxidase-negative and catalase-positive.
Enterobacter cloacae has been used in a bioreactor-based method for the biodegradation of explosives and in the biological control of plant diseases.
E. cloacae is considered a biosafety level 1 organism in the United States and level 2 in Canada.
A draft genome sequence of Enterobacter cloacae subsp. cloacae was announced in 2012. The bacteria used in the study were isolated from giant panda feces.
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