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Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods > Enterobacteriaceae > Citrobacter
Bacteria > Proteobacteria > Gammaproteobacteria > Enterobacteriaceae > Citrobacter

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Citrobacter  

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Note

  • in soil, water & sometimes intestine; infection: coordinate with ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS

Scope note

  • A genus of gram-negative, rod-shaped enterobacteria that can use citrate as the sole source of carbon.

History note

  • 79(75); was see under ENTEROBACTERIACEAE 1976-78; was see under ESCHERICHIA 1974-75

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002954

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