Talk:Enterobacter
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[edit]I removed the following excessively technical material (and the cleanup tempalte) from the article:
Gram Stain: Small Gram-negative rods, found in clusters.
On Blood Agar: forms small to medium colonies, round in shape, mucod and opaque in colour, flat. On MacConkey Agar: Normal coloured agar, purplish colonies, small round, slightly raised, moist On XLD plates: Fermentative - yellow agar, large yellow-cream colonies, slightly raised, moist.
Catalase: positive, Oxidase: negative, Urea: negative, Indole: negative, MR: negative, VP: positive, Citrate: negative, Gas from Glucose: positive, Motile, TSI: A/A with gas production
Causes opportunistic infections in compromised (usually hospitalised) host. Urinary and Respiratory tract most common sites of infection.
- What is considered excessively technical? As a biology student, I would find that information useful. Wixteria 03:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- That is also the sort of imformation I am usually looking to find. maybe a new a section with this information could be set up and anyone not requiring it can quickly scroll past. I am also abit bothered about the picture. I am quite sure that there is more than one organism in this photo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.105.26.173 (talk) 10:50, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- Hmm... I found Enterobacter faecalis to be Gram positive. It a bacillus-shaped bacterium that was either Enterobacter faecalis or Bacillus megaterium, and it couldn't have been the latter because Bacillus undergoes beta-hemolysis while Enterobacter faecalis doesn't. I guess not all species of Enterobacter are Gram negative then. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.26.194.190 (talk) 22:35, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Inconsistency
[edit]Introduction: "It is also a fecal coliform, along with Escherichia."
Diagnosis: "and is a non fecal coliform"
Um - can't be both! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.191.134.255 (talk) 05:05, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Added "Dubious" tags to these two statements. Perhaps someone who has access to a "Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology" or other bacteriology reference source can clarify this for us? I believe that to be classified as a "fecal coliform" a bacterium must be a member of the coliform group of organisms and it must be able to grow at 45 degrees Celsius. I don't believe that Enterobacter matches this second criterion, but this would need to be verified from a reliable source to be sure. Schoenhg (talk) 09:36, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Found a reliable source and was able to discern whether Enterobacter is in fact a fecal coliform...according to the definition it is not. The Enterobacter article has thus been updated to reflect this and the appropriate reference has been added.Schoenhg (talk) 15:39, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
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