Term | Definition |
Proteobacteria | Bacteria, Gram negative,chemoheterotrophic |
Escheria | Bacteria, not usually pathogenic, gammaproteobacteria |
Esherichia coli | causes UTI and diarrhea |
Salmonella | Bacteria, usually pathogenic , gammaproteobacteria |
Salmonella enterica & S. typhimurium | cause salmonellosis |
Salmonella typhi | causes typhoid fever |
Shigella | Bacteria only found in humans, gammaproteobacteria |
Shigella Dysenteriae | causes dysentery and shigellosis |
Yersenia | transmitted to humans by fleas, gammaproteobacteria |
Yersenia pestis | Cause of the plague |
Serratia | makes red pigment, gammaproteobacteria |
Serratia marcenscens | found in hospital catheters and saline irrigation systems cause of UTI, respiratory infections |
Gammaproteobacteria characteristics | large variety of physiological types |
alphaproteobacteria | capable of growth in low nutrient environments, agriculturally important, has protrusions called prosthecae |
betaproteobacteria | use hydrogen gas, ammonia, methane, from decomposing matter, several pathogenic |