Citrobacter rodentium

Citrobacter rodentium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Enterobacterales
Family:	Enterobacteriaceae
Genus:	Citrobacter
Species:	C. rodentium
Binomial name
	Citrobacter rodentium; Schauer et al. 1996

Citrobacter rodentium is a Gram-negative species of bacteria.^[1] It infects the intestinal tracts of rodents, and infrequently is an opportunistic pathogen in humans.

References[]

^ Schauer DB, Zabel BA, Pedraza IF, O'Hara CM, Steigerwalt AG, Brenner DJ (1995). "Genetic and biochemical characterization of Citrobacter rodentium sp. nov". J Clin Microbiol. 33 (8): 2064–8. doi:10.1128/JCM.33.8.2064-2068.1995. PMC 228336. PMID 7559949.

Further reading[]

Mundy R, MacDonald TT, Dougan G, Frankel G, Wiles S (2005). "Citrobacter rodentium of mice and man". Cell Microbiol. 7 (12): 1697–706. doi:10.1111/j.1462-5822.2005.00625.x. PMID 16309456.
Arens, Sofie; Verhaegen, Jan; Verbist, Ludo (1997). "Differentiation and susceptibility of Citrobacter isolates from patients in a university hospital". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 3 (1): 53–57. doi:10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00251.x. ISSN 1198-743X. PMID 11864076.
Bhinder G, Sham HP, Chan JM, Morampudi V, Jacobson K, Vallance BA (2013). "The Citrobacter rodentium mouse model: studying pathogen and host contributions to infectious colitis". J Vis Exp (72): e50222. doi:10.3791/50222. PMC 3605715. PMID 23462619.
Ochman, Howard; Petty, Nicola K.; Feltwell, Theresa; Pickard, Derek; Clare, Simon; Toribio, Ana L.; Fookes, Maria; Roberts, Kevin; Monson, Rita; Nair, Satheesh; Kingsley, Robert A.; Bulgin, Richard; Wiles, Siouxsie; Goulding, David; Keane, Thomas; Corton, Craig; Lennard, Nicola; Harris, David; Willey, David; Rance, Richard; Yu, Lu; Choudhary, Jyoti S.; Churcher, Carol; Quail, Michael A.; Parkhill, Julian; Frankel, Gad; Dougan, Gordon; Salmond, George P. C.; Thomson, Nicholas R. (2011). "Citrobacter rodentium is an Unstable Pathogen Showing Evidence of Significant Genomic Flux". PLOS Pathogens. 7 (4): e1002018. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002018. ISSN 1553-7374. PMC 3072379. PMID 21490962.

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[pmid7559949-1] Schauer DB, Zabel BA, Pedraza IF, O'Hara CM, Steigerwalt AG, Brenner DJ (1995). "Genetic and biochemical characterization of Citrobacter rodentium sp. nov". J Clin Microbiol. 33 (8): 2064–8. doi:10.1128/JCM.33.8.2064-2068.1995. PMC 228336. PMID 7559949.

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