Providencia (bacterium)

Providencia
Providencia alcalifaciens
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Morganellaceae
Genus:
Ewing 1962
Species

P. stuartii
P. sneebia
P. rettgeri
P. rustigianii
P. heimbachae
P. burhodogranariea
P. alcalifaciens

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]

  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.
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