Citrobacter koseri: Introduction, Identification Features, and Keynotes

Citrobacter koseri growth on CLED agar

Introduction of Citrobacter koseri Citrobacter koseri is previously known as Citrobacter diversus. It is a facultative anaerobe of 1.0 × 2.0–6.0 μm in size, motile, non-capsulated, and gram-negative bacillus of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Citrobacter koseri acts as etiological agents of various pathological conditions like urinary tract infections (UTIs), …

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Biochemical Test of Gram-Negative Bacteria: Introduction, Common Tests, List of Organisms, Keynotes, and Some Related Footages

Biochemical Test of Gram-Negative Bacteria: Introduction, Common Tests, List of Organisms, Keynotes, and Some Related Footages

Introduction of Biochemical Test of Gram-Negative Bacteria Gram-negative bacteria are the most common etiological agents which are responsible for bacterial infections as well as viral co-infections. Clinical Microbiology Laboratory generally becomes busy due to those isolates. The need for ‘Biochemical Test of Gram-Negative Bacteria’ is …

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Citrobacter freundii: Introduction, Identification Features, and keynotes

Citrobacter freundii colony characteristics on CLED agar of Urine Culture

Introduction of Citrobacter freundii Citrobacter freundii is a member of the family, Enterobacteriaceae and it is a Gram-negative bacillus, non-sporing, non-encapsulated, aerobic, or facultative anaerobe that causes various types of infections of the urinary tract, respiratory tract, peritoneum, liver, bone, endocardium, intestines, soft tissue, meninges, …

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Gram-negative bacilli bacteria: Introduction, List of Bacteria, Keynotes, and Related Footage

Introduction of Gram-Negative Bacilli (GNB) Bacteria ‘Gram Positive Negative (GNB)‘ is also called Gram Negative Rods (GNR) bacteria which take safranin after decolorization and stain pink or red on Gram’s staining. The most of GNR bacteria are medically important and among them few are Escherichia …

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Enterobacteriaceae: Introduction, Phenotypic Features, Keynotes, and Related photos

Enterobacteriaceae: Introduction, Phenotypic Features and Keynotes and Related photos

Introduction of Enterobacteriaceae The family Enterobacteriaceae was first proposed by Rahn in 1936 and it is a very large group of gram-negative bacteria that possess a number of common morphological and biochemical properties and similar DNA base compositions. The widely used systems for the classification …

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Lactose Fermenter (LF) and Non-Lactose Fermenter (NLF) Gram-Negative Bacteria: Introduction, List of LF and NLF Bacteria, and Keynotes

LF and NLF Colonies of Klebsiella and Pseudomonas on MacConkey medium

Introduction of LF and NLF Gram-Negative Bacteria on MacConkey Medium MacConkey agar/ medium is recommended for use as a selective, differential, and indicator growth medium for the isolation of gram-negative bacilli including coliform organisms and enteric pathogens, on the basis of lactose fermentation. Peptones (meat …

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