Comamonas
Comamonas is a genus of bacteria in the phylum Pseudomonadota.[2] Like all Pseudomonadota, they are Gram-negative bacteria. Comamonas species are aerobic organisms and motile using bipolar or polar tufts of one to five flagella.Comamonas testosteroni and Comamonas kerstersii have been found to cause infections[3]
| Comamonas | |
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| Comamonas testosteroni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Burkholderiales |
| Family: | Comamonadaceae |
| Genus: | Comamonas (ex Davis and Park 1962) De Vos et al. 1985 |
| Type species | |
| Comamonas terrigena | |
| Species | |
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C. acidovorans | |
References
- "Genus: Comamonas". lpsn.dsmz.de. Archived from the original on 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.
- Ryan, Michael P.; Sevjahova, Ludmila; Gorman, Rachel; White, Sandra (September 2022). "The Emergence of the Genus Comamonas as Important Opportunistic Pathogens". Pathogens. 11 (9): 1032. doi:10.3390/pathogens11091032. ISSN 2076-0817. PMC 9504711. PMID 36145464.
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