Enterococcus solitarius is a species of the genus Enterococcus. It is gram-positive, catalase-negative, and facultatively anaerobic. It was discovered in 1989 alongside Enterococcus raffinosus and Enterococcus pseudoavium[2]
| Enterococcus solitarius | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Lactobacillales |
| Family: | Enterococcaceae |
| Genus: | Enterococcus |
| Species: | E. solitarius
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| Binomial name | |
| Enterococcus solitarius Collins et al. 1989[1]
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Transfer to Tetragenococcus has been proposed.[3]
References
edit- ^ Parte, A.C. "Enterococcus". LPSN.
- ^ Collins, M (February 1989). "Enterococcus raffinosus sp. nov., Enterococcus solitarius sp. nov. and Enterococcus pseudoavium sp. nov". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 57 (3): 283–288. doi:10.1016/0378-1097(89)90315-7.
- ^ Ennahar S, Cai Y (March 2005). "Biochemical and genetic evidence for the transfer of Enterococcus solitarius Collins et al. 1989 to the genus Tetragenococcus as Tetragenococcus solitarius comb. nov". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 55 (Pt 2): 589–92. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63205-0. PMID 15774629.
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