genus Serratia


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Noun1.genus Serratia - a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod
Serratia
bacteria genus - a genus of bacteria
Enterobacteriaceae, family Enterobacteriaceae - a large family of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales
Serratia marcescens - the type species of the genus Serratia; a species found in water and soil and milk and foods and insects; can cause infections of the endocardium and blood and wounds and urinary tract and respiratory tract; has been tested as a bioweapon
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In general, species of the genus Serratia are isolated from plants (vegetables, mushrooms, mosses), digestive rodents tube (40% of small wild mammals carry Serratia spp.), Insects, water and soil [13].
Evaluation of the microbiological quality of broiler meat and antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates
Some insect pathogenic species of the genus Serratia have been isolated from different insects (Yaman et al.
Aislamiento e identificacion de bacterias de algunas plagas de alamo
Non-symbiotic bacterial species from the genus Serratia, such as S.
Phoresis between Serratia marcescens and Steinernema carpocapsae (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae) during infection of Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) larvae

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