Enterobacter cloacae

Enterobacter cloacae
	Enterobacter cloacae on Tryptic Soy Broth agar.; Enterobacter cloacae on Tryptic Soy Broth agar.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria;
Phylum:	Proteobacteria;
Class:	Gamma Proteobacteria;
Order:	Enterobacteriales;
Family:	Enterobacteriaceae;
Genus:	Enterobacter;
Binomial name
	Enterobacter cloacae; (Jordan 1890) ; Hormaeche and Edwards 1960
Subspecies
	E. c. subsp. cloacae ; E. c. subsp. dissolvens
Synonyms
	Bacillus cloacae Jordan 1890 ; Bacterium cloacae (Jordan 1890) Lehmann and Neumann 1896 ; Cloaca cloacae (Jordan 1890) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 ; Aerobacter cloacae (Jordan 1890) Bergey et al. 1923 ; Aerobacter cloacae (Jordan 1890) Hormaeche and Edwards 1958 ; Erwinia dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Burkholder 1948 ; Pseudomonas dissolvens Rosen 1922 ; Bacterium dissolvens Rosen 1922 ; Phytomonas dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Rosen 1926 ; Aplanobacter dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Rosen 1926 ; Aerobacter dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Waldee 1945 ; Enterobacter dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Brenner et al. 1988

Enterobacter cloacae is a clinically significant Gram-negative, facultatively-anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. Template:Proteobacteria-stub Template:WikiDoc Sources

Gallery

Agar culture plate grew colonies of Enterobacter cloacae that were both characteristically rough and smooth in appearance.. From Public Health Image Library (PHIL). ^[1]