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Enterobacter
cloacae
| Respiration: |
Facultatively anaerobic |
| Motility: |
Peritrichous flagella |
| Taxonomy: |
Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales;
Enterobacteriaceae; Enterobacter |
| Industrial
implications: |
| Enterobacter
cloacae has been used in a bioreactor based method
for the biodegradation of explosives and in the biological
control of plant diseases. |
| Misc.: |
Enterobacter cloacae is a rod-shaped bacterium
that is oxidase-negative and catalase-positive. |
| Human
health: |
Enterobacter cloacae is sometimes associated
with urinary tract and respiratory tract infections. |
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