BIOL 2P98 Study Guide - Final Guide: Enterobacter Cloacae, Gram-Negative Bacteria, Meningitis
2 Aug 2015
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Some serotypes can cause serious food poisoning in humans, and are occasionally responsible for product recalls due to food contamination. The harmless strains are part of the normal flora of the gut, and can benefit their hosts by producing vitamin k2, and by preventing the establishment of pathogenic bacteria within the intestine. Important species in the fields of biotechnology and microbiology, where it has served as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant dna. Note: gram negative, nonsporulating rods, non motile or motile by peritrichous flagella, facultative aerobes, ferment sugars to various end products most can ferment lactose. Enteropathogenic e. coli: diarrhea in humans and pets uses intimin as adhesion that causes rearrangement of actin and thus deforms intestinal walls, moderately invasive, stimulates inflammation, lack fimbriae, st & lt. Enterobacter cloacae: gram negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod shaped bacterium used in a bioreactor based method for the biodegradation of explosives and in the biological control of plant diseases.
