Chromobacterium

Chromobacterium
Blood agar plate culture of Chromobacterium violaceum.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Neisseriales
Family: Neisseriaceae
Genus: Chromobacterium
Bergonzini 1880[1]
Type species
Chromobacterium violaceum[1]
Species

C. alkanivorans[1]
C. amazonense[1]
C. aquaticum[1]
C. haemolyticum[1]
C. phragmitis[2]
C. piscinae[1]
C. pseudoviolaceum[1]
C. rhizoryzae[1]
C. subtsugae[1]
C. vaccinii[1]
C. violaceum[1]

Chromobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria.[3]: 279  Currently, eleven species within the genus are known, two of those are Chromobacterium violaceum and Chromobacterium subtsugae;[4] the latter was discovered by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland.[4]

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  2. ^ Blackburn, Michael B.; Farrar, Robert R.; Sparks, Michael E.; Kuhar, Daniel; Mowry, Joseph D.; Mitchell, Ashaki; Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn E. (2019). "Chromobacterium phragmitis sp. nov., isolated from estuarine marshes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 69 (9): 2681–2686. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003508. PMID 31199223.
  3. ^ James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.
  4. ^ a b Martin, Phyllis A. W.; Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn; Blackburn, Michael; Buyer, Jeffrey (May 2007). "Chromobacterium subtsugae sp. nov., a betaproteobacterium toxic to Colorado potato beetle and other insect pests". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (5): 993–999. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64611-0. PMID 17473247.