Kluyvera

Kluyvera

 [kli´ver-ah] a genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that are occasional opportunistic pathogens and cause respiratory and urinary infections.

Kluyvera

(klū'ē-ver'ă), Genus in family Enterobacteriaceae; organisms are motile, lactose fermenting, and differentiated from other genera by specific phenotypic profiles and DNA-DNA hybridization parameters; some species have been associated with human infection; the type species is Kluyvera ascorbata.

Kluyvera

(klī′vĕr-ă) A genus of bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae whose members are all motile, gram-negative rods.