Comamonas testosteroni, a brief microbiological review
Review article
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Comamonas, Comamonas testosteroni, Review, Review Literature as TopicAbstract
The genus Comamonas is related to the family Comamonadaceae, belonging to the Beta subdivision of the phylum Proteobacteria; it is characterized mainly by maintaining a morphology of straight rods or slightly curved spirillae with gram-negative staining, motility mediated by a polar flagellum, etc., and its strictly respiratory metabolism, with the ability even to use nitrates by certain species as an energy source; the microorganism Comamonas testosteroni, described in 1956 and reclassified in 1987, has been reported as an opportunistic pathogen in various pathologies of the human species, highlighting bacteremia due to appendicitis, cellulitis and even endocarditis or endophthalmitis, making it an important microbiological agent.
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