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The nameLeclercia adecarboxylata is proposed for a group of the family Enterobacteriacae previously known asEscherichia adecarboxylata. Leclercia adecarboxylata can be phenotypically differentiated from all other species of Enterobacteriaceae. The members of this species are positive for motility, indole production, methyl red, growth in the presence of KCN, malonate, beta-galactosidase, beta-xylosidase, esculin hydrolysis, gas production fromd-glucose, and acid production fromd-cellobiose,d-lactose, melibiose,l-rhamnose, adonitol,d-arabitol, dulcitol, and salicin; the strains were negative for Voges-Proskauer, citrate (Simmons), H2S (Kligler), lysine and ornithine decarboxylases, arginine dihydrolase, phenylalanine deaminase, gelatinase, DNase, Tween-80 hydrolysis, and acid production from myoinositol and alpha-methyl-d-glucoside. Fermentation ofd-raffinose,d-sucrose, andd-sorbitol is variable with strains. DNA relatedness of 11 strains ofL. adecarboxylata to three strains including the type strain of this species averaged 80% in reactions at 65°C. DNA relatedness to other species in Enterobacteriaceae was 2%–32%, indicating that this species was placed in a new genusLeclercia gen. nov. The type strain ofL. adecarboxylata is ATCC 23216.
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Tamura, K., Sakazaki, R., Kosako, Y. et al. Leclercia adecarboxylata Gen. Nov., Comb. Nov., formerly known asEscherichia adecarboxylata.. Current Microbiology 13, 179–184 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01568943
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