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Enterobacterales
Order of gram-negative bacteria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with enteric bacteria.
Enterobacterales is an order of Gram-negative, non-spore forming, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria with the class Gammaproteobacteria.[1] The type genus of this order is Enterobacter.[1]
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Enterobacter, the type genus of the order | |
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Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
Order: | Enterobacterales Adeolu et al., 2016 |
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The name Enterobacterales is derived from the Latin term Enterobacter, referring the type genus of the order and the suffix "-ales", an ending used to denote an order. Together, Enterobacterales refers to an order whose nomenclatural type is the genus Enterobacter.[1]