Klebsiella

Klebsiella

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Enterobacterales
Prokaryota Superregnum: Bacteria Regnum: Bacteria Phylum: Proteobacteria Classis: Gammaproteobacteria Ordo: Enterobacterales

Familia: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Klebsiella
Species: K. alba – K. aerogenes (Enterobacter aerogenes) – K. granulomatis – K. grimontii – K. michiganensis – K. oxytoca – K. pneumoniae – K. quasipneumoniae – K. singaporensis – K. variicola

Name

Klebsiella Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Drancourt et al. 2001

Type species: K. pneumoniae
(Schroeter 1886) Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980)

The genus was named after Edwin Klebs (1834-1913), a German bacteriologist.

Synonyms

• “Hyalococcus” Schroeter 1886
• Klebsiella, Pascher, 1931

References

Primary references

• Trevisan, V. B. A. 1885. Carratteri di alcuni nuovi generi di Batteriacee. Atti della Accademia Fisica-Medica-Stastistica in Milano (ser 4) 3, 92–107. Reference page. 
• Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V. & Sneath, P.H.A. 1980. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 30(1): 225–420 (1980-01-01) DOI: 10.1099/00207713-30-1-225 Reference page. 
• Drancourt, M., Bollet, C., Carta, A. & Rousselier, P. 2001. Phylogenetic analyses of Klebsiella species delineate Klebsiella and Raoultella gen. nov., with description of Raoultella ornithinolytica comb. nov., Raoultella terrigena comb. nov. and Raoultella planticola comb. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 51:925–932. DOI: 10.1099/00207713-51-3-925 Reference page. 

Links

• LPSN link : Klebsiella
• Klebsiella – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• European Nucleotide Archive

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