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Characterization ofYersinia enterocolitica sensu stricto

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The speciesYersinia enterocolitica is definedsensu stricto on the bases of biochemical and other phenotypic characteristics. Biochemically,Y. enterocolitica contains five major biotypes: 1 through 4 of Niléhn and of Wauters, and the trehalose-negative, metabolically inactive, socalled hare strains in biotype 5 of Niléhn and of Wauters, and biochemically atypical strains, including urease-negative, Simmons' citrate-positive, and lactose-and raffinose-positive strains.Y. enterocolitica sensu stricto was distinguishable from the newly described speciesYersinia kristensenii by sucrose and Voges-Proskauer reactions (negative inY. kristensenii). These species were previously separated by DNA relatedness.Y. enterocolitica was also separable biochemically and by DNA relatedness from the two newly proposed rhamnose-positive species,Yersinia intermedia andYersinia frederiksenii. Strain 161(=CIP 80-27=ATCC 9610) is proposed as the neotype forY. enterocolitica.

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  1. Institut Pasteur, Centre National des Yersinia, Paris, France

    Hervé Bercovier, Jean Michel Alonso & H. H. Mollaret

  2. Enteric Section, Center for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 30333, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Don J. Brenner, Arnold G. Steigerwalt & Geraldine P. Carter

  3. Department of Clinical Bacteriology, University of Lund, Malmö General Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Jan Ursing

  4. Division of Biochemistry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 20012, Washington, D. C., USA

    G. Richard Fanning

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Bercovier, H., Brenner, D.J., Ursing, J. et al. Characterization ofYersinia enterocolitica sensu stricto . Current Microbiology 4, 201–206 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02605857

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