Weeksella virosa

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Weeksella virosa
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Flavobacteriia
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Weeksellaceae
Genus: Weeksella
Species:
W. virosa
Binomial name
Weeksella virosa
Holmes et al. 1987 [1]

Weeksella virosa is a Gram-negative and aerobic bacterium from the genus of Weeksella which can cause infection in rare cases. [1] [2] [3] [4] Weeksella virosa occurs in the human genitourinary tract. [5] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Species: Weeksella virosa". LPSN.DSMZ.de.
  2. "Weeksella virosa". www.uniprot.org.
  3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M. (2008). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Taxonomy of the species Weeksella virosa Holmes et al. 1987 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016". doi:10.1601/tx.8203.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Slenker, A. K.; Hess, B. D.; Jungkind, D. L.; DeSimone, J. A. (1 December 2012). "Fatal Case of Weeksella virosa Sepsis". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 50 (12): 4166–4167. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01761-12 . PMC   3503020 . PMID   23035202.
  5. Darai, Gholamreza; Handermann, Michaela; Sonntag, Hans-Günther; Zoller, L.; Tidona, Christian A. (2009). Lexikon der Infektionskrankheiten des Menschen: Erreger, Symptome, Diagnose, Therapie und Prophylaxe ; mit 43 Tabellen (in German). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 315. ISBN   978-3-540-39005-3.
  6. Reina, J; Gil, J; Salva, F; Gomez, J; Alomar, P (October 1990). "Microbiological characteristics of Weeksella virosa (formerly CDC group IIf) isolated from the human genitourinary tract". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 28 (10): 2357–2359. doi:10.1128/JCM.28.10.2357-2359.1990. ISSN   0095-1137. PMC   268178 . PMID   2229364.