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Pantoea agglomerans
Pantoea agglomerans
Small colonies that are greyish to yellow in colour. There is no alteration of the blood.

 
General characteristics: Gram-negative rods. Catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Attacks sugars fermentatively usually without gas production. Pantoea agglomerans consists of yellow pigmented strains that are arginine dihydrolase, lysine decarboxylase and ornithine decarboxylase negative. Motile.
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