Providencia (genus of bacteria)
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SEM image of Providencia alcalifaciens |
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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
- ↑ http://www.bacterio.net/providencia.html
- ^ 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