Explore: Proteus (bacteria)

Proteus is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria. Proteus spp. are rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic, and motile bacteria that exhibit swarming motility

activity. P. mirabilis causes 90% of all Proteus infections in humans. It is widely distributed in soil and water. Proteus mirabilis can migrate across the surface

Coliform bacteria are defined as either motile or non-motile Gram-negative non-spore forming bacilli that possess β-galactosidase to produce acids and

Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial

some isolates. The Proteus penneri group of bacteria was named in 1982. It reclassified a group of strains formerly known as Proteus vulgaris biogroup

melaninogenica (previously called Bacteroides melaninogenicus) Proteus Proteus mirabilis Proteus penneri Proteus vulgaris Pseudomonas aeruginosa Rhizobium radiobacter

Proteus vulgaris is a rod-shaped, nitrate-reducing, indole-positive and catalase-positive, hydrogen sulfide-producing, Gram-negative bacterium that inhabits

in favorable conditions for the formation of struvite stones. Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, and Morganella morganii are the most common organisms

Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, who named his discovery "Der Kleine Proteus" ("the Little Proteus"). Rösel's illustrations show an unidentifiable freshwater amoeba

of bile salts inhibits swarming by Proteus species. By utilizing the lactose available in the medium, Lac+ bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Enterobacter