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Pseudocitrobacter

Pseudocitrobacter is a genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, non-hemolytic, and oxidase-negative bacteria. It was first isolated from stool samples from a Pakistani hospital.

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Pseudocitrobacter
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Pseudocitrobacter
Species1
  • Pseudocitrobacter faecalis
  • Pseudocitrobacter anthropi

Pseudocitrobacter is a genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, non-hemolytic, and oxidase-negative bacteria. It was first isolated from stool samples from a Pakistani hospital.2

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  1. Kämpfer, P.; Glaeser, S. P.; Raza, M. W.; Abbasi, S. A.; Perry, J. D. (2014). "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". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 37 (1): 17–22. Bibcode:2014SyApM..37...17K. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2013.08.003. PMID 24182752.
  2. Kelly, S.A.; O'Connell, N.H.; Thompson, T.P.; Dillon, L.; Wu, J.; Creevey, C.; Powell, J.; Gilmore, B.F.; Dunne, C.P. (March 2024). "A novel characterized multi-drug-resistant Pseudocitrobacter sp. isolated from a patient colonized while admitted to a tertiary teaching hospital". Journal of Hospital Infection. 145: 193–202. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2023.12.010. ISSN 0195-6701. PMID 38215945. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  • Kämpfer, P., Fuglsang-Damgaard, D., Overballe-Petersen, S., Hasman, H., Hammerum, A. M., Fuursted, K., Blom, J., Glaeser, S. P., & Hansen, F. (2020). "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. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 70(2), 1315–1320. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003918