Klebsiella oxytoca
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| Klebsiella oxytoca | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacteriales |
| Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Klebsiella |
| Species: | K. oxytoca |
| Binomial name | |
| Klebsiella oxytoca (Flügge 1886) Lautrop 1956 |
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Klebsiella oxytoca is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that is closely related to K. pneumoniae, from which it is distinguished by being indole-positive; it also has slightly different growth characteristics in that it is able to grow on melezitose, but not 3-hydroxybutyrate.
K. oxytoca is characterized by negative methyl red, positive VP, positive citrate, urea and TSI gas production, is AA, and negative for TSI sulfide, DNAse, SIM motility and PAD.
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Industrial uses [edit]
K. oxytoca has shown promise in industrial ethanol fuel production.[1]
K. oxytoca is referenced as being used to produce hydrogen in patents filed by Nanologix, Inc.
Clinical significance [edit]
It can cause colitis and sepsis.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ Dien B, Cotta M, Jeffries T (2003). "Bacteria engineered for fuel ethanol production: current status". Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 63 (3): 258–66. doi:10.1007/s00253-003-1444-y. PMID 13680206.
- ^ Högenauer C, Langner C, Beubler E, et al (December 2006). "Klebsiella oxytoca as a causative organism of antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis". N. Engl. J. Med. 355 (23): 2418–26. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa054765. PMID 17151365.
External links [edit]
- Klebsiella oxytoca at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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