Yokenella
Genus of bacteria
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Yokenella is a genus of bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Yokenella are Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacteria. Strains of bacteria forming this genus were originally isolated from clinical samples, from the boxelder bug,[1] and from alligators.[2]
| Yokenella | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacterales |
| Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Yokenella Kosako, 1984 |
| Species | |
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Y. regensburgei | |
There is only one species in this genus: Yokenella regensburgei.[3]
Yokenella is not an important pathogen, but it has been found in sporadic cases of finger osteitis,[4] necrotizing fasciitis,[5] in urinary tract infections,[6] and a few other diseases, some of which may have been caused by immunosupression.[7]
A draft genome sequence is 5,277,883 bp in size and has 5,416 genes.[8] The genome is thus larger than average bacterial genomes, such as Escherichia coli whose genome is about 4 MB in size.