Providencia (genus of bacteria)

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Providencia
SEM image of Providencia alcalifaciens

SEM image of Providencia alcalifaciens

Systematics
Domain : Bacteria (bacteria)
Department : Proteobacteria
Class : Gammaproteobacteria
Order : Enterobacterales
Family : Morganellaceae
Genre : Providencia
Scientific name
Providencia
Ewing 1962

Providencia (after the city of Providence , Rhode Iceland, United States) are a genus of gram-negative , peritrich be flagellated ter, facultative anaerobic bacilli. The indole- positive reaction and urease formation are characteristic. They are ubiquitous , butmainlyoccur in the digestive tract . Providencia has been shown to treat diarrhea , urinary tract infections , burns , wound infections and bacteremia . Providencia are (like their similar species of the genus Proteus ) important nosocomial pathogens ("hospital germs"), v. a. after interventions in the urogenital tract . They are also considered to be opportunistic pathogens and are naturally resistant to the antibiotics ampicillin ± sulbactam , amoxicillin ± clavulanic acid ,first-generation cephalosporins , colistin , tetracyclines , tigecycline and nitrofurantoin ..

species

  • P. rettgeri (Hadley 1918) Brenner et al. 1978
  • P. rustigianii Hickman-Brenner et al. 1983
  • P. stuartii (Buttiaux et al. 1954) Ewing 1962

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bacterio.net/providencia.html
  2. ^ R. Leclercq et al .: EUCAST expert rules in antimicrobial susceptibility testing . In: Clinical Microbiology and Infection . tape 19 , no. 2 . Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, ISSN  1469-0691 , pp. 141-160 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1469-0691.2011.03703.x , PMID 22117544 ( wiley.com [accessed February 17, 2013]).

swell

  • Pschyrembel Clinical Dictionary , 256th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-11-010881-X