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Genus: | Yokenella Kosako, 1984 |
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Yokenella is a genus of bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Yokenella are Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacteria. Strains of bacteria forming this genus were originally isolated from clinical samples, from the boxelder bug, [1] and from alligators. [2]
There is only one species in this genus: Yokenella regensburgei. [3]
Yokenella is not an important pathogen, but it has been found in sporadic cases of finger osteitis, [4] necrotizing fasciitis, [5] in urinary tract infections, [6] and a few other diseases, some of which may have been caused by immunosupression. [7]
A draft genome sequence is 5,277,883 bp in size and has 5,416 genes. [8] The genome is thus larger than average bacterial genomes, such as Escherichiacoli whose genome is about 4 MB in size.