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The Genus Enterobacter

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Footnote 1

Introduction

The genus Enterobacter was first proposed by Hormaeche and Edwards (1960a). However, the history of some species now placed in the genus Enterobacter can be traced, albeit with some confusion, to the end of the 19th century. “Bacillus lactis aerogenes” was isolated by Escherich (1885) from milk and renamed “Bacillus aerogenes” by Kruse (1896) and “Aerobacter aerogenes” by Beijerinck (1900). Until 1955, differentiation of this organism from Friedländer’s bacillus (now called Klebsiella pneumoniae) was not clear, and most authors considered “B. lactis aerogenes” or “Aerobacter aerogenes” to be either nonmotile or to contain both motile and nonmotile strains (Grimbert and Legros, 1900; Edwards and Fife, 1955). This led Edwards and Fife (1955) to state that “A. aerogenes” strains were in fact Klebsiella strains.

“Bacterium cloacae” was described by Jordan (1890) and transferred to a new genus “Cloaca” as “Cloaca cloacae” by Castellani and Chalmers (1920). In the...

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  1. Department of Microbiology University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota, 196, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0312, USA

    Martin Dworkin

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

    Stanley Falkow

  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Ramat-Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  4. Department of Microbiology, Technical University Munich, 80290, Munich, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

  5. DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

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Grimont, F., Grimont, P.A.D. (2006). The Genus Enterobacter. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30746-X_9

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