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Chromobacterium
Blood agar plate culture of Chromobacterium violaceum.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Neisseriales
Family:	Neisseriaceae
Genus:	Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880
Type species
Chromobacterium violaceum
Species
C. alkanivorans C. amazonense C. aquaticum C. haemolyticum C. phragmitis C. piscinae C. pseudoviolaceum C. rhizoryzae C. subtsugae C. vaccinii C. violaceum

Chromobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria. Currently, eleven species within the genus are known, two of those are Chromobacterium violaceum and Chromobacterium subtsugae; the latter was discovered by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland.

References

1. ^ Parte, A.C. "Chromobacterium". LPSN.
2. Blackburn, Michael B.; Farrar, Robert R.; Sparks, Michael E.; Kuhar, Daniel; Mowry, Joseph D.; Mitchell, Ashaki; Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn E. (2019). "Chromobacterium phragmitis sp. nov., isolated from estuarine marshes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 69 (9): 2681–2686. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003508. PMID 31199223.
3. James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.
4. ^ Martin, Phyllis A. W.; Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn; Blackburn, Michael; Buyer, Jeffrey (May 2007). "Chromobacterium subtsugae sp. nov., a betaproteobacterium toxic to Colorado potato beetle and other insect pests". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (5): 993–999. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64611-0. PMID 17473247.

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