| Chromobacterium | |
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| Blood agar plate culture of Chromobacterium violaceum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Neisseriales |
| Family: | Neisseriaceae |
| Genus: | Chromobacterium Bergonzini 18801 |
| Type species | |
| Chromobacterium violaceum1 | |
| Species | |
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C. alkanivorans1 | |
Chromobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria.3: 279 Currently, eleven species within the genus are known, two of those are Chromobacterium violaceum and Chromobacterium subtsugae;4 the latter was discovered by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland.4
References
References
- Parte, A.C. "Chromobacterium". LPSN.
- Blackburn, Michael B.; Farrar, Robert R.; Sparks, Michael E.; Kuhar, Daniel; Mowry, Joseph D.; Mitchell, Ashaki; Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn E. (2019). "Chromobacterium phragmitis sp. nov., isolated from estuarine marshes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 69 (9): 2681–2686. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003508. PMID 31199223.
- James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.
- Martin, Phyllis A. W.; Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn; Blackburn, Michael; Buyer, Jeffrey (May 2007). "Chromobacterium subtsugae sp. nov., a betaproteobacterium toxic to Colorado potato beetle and other insect pests". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (5): 993–999. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64611-0. PMID 17473247.