General information

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  Taxonomy
  Family: Pseudomonadaceae
  Genus: formerly Flavimonas
  
  Natural habitat
  Isolated from soil, water, plants and clinical specimens.
  Does not belong to the human flora.
  
  Clinical significance
  Has only rarely been associated with human infections.
  
  Infections is frequently linked to implanted or indwelling materials or to invasive procedures.

Gram stain

• the following information is not yet verified
  Gram negative rods,
  
  0.5-0.8 x 1.5-3 µm

Culture characteristics

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  Obligate Aerobic
  
  They typically exhibit rough, dry, wrinkled, adherent, non-hemolytic colonies or, more rarely, smooth colonies.
  
  Both have a yellow pigment.
  
  McConkey growth, non lactose fermenter
  
  BBAØ no growth

Characteristics

• Gram-negative
• bacilli
• growth obligate-aerobic
• catalase-positive
• oxidase-negative
• vancomycin-resistant
• colistine-susceptible
• motility-single polar flagellum

References