| Providencia | |
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| Providencia alcalifaciens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacterales |
| Family: | Morganellaceae |
| Genus: | Providencia Ewing 1962 |
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P. stuartii | |
Providencia is genus of Gram-negative, motile bacteria of the family Morganellaceae. It was named after Providence, Rhode Island, where C. A. Stuart and colleagues studied these bacteria at Brown University.[1]
- ^ Stuart, CA; Wheeler, KM; Rustigian, R; Zimmerman, A (February 1943). "Biochemical and Antigenic Relationships of the Paracolon Bacteria". Journal of Bacteriology. 45 (2): 101–19. doi:10.1128/jb.45.2.101-119.1943. PMC 373720. PMID 16560614.