Citrobacter
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Citrobacter spp. cause opportunistic infections (including urinary tract infections, gastroenteritis, and bacteremia).
Microbiology
Microbial biochemistry
The species C. amalonaticus, C. koseri, and C. freundii can use citrate as a sole carbon source. Citrobacter species are differentiated by their ability to convert tryptophan to indole (C. koseri is the only citrobacter to be commonly indole-positive), ferment lactose (C. koseri is a lactose fermentor), and use malonate.
Citrobacter shows the ability to accumulate uranium by building phosphate complexes.
Environmental microbiology
These bacteria can be found almost everywhere in soil, water, wastewater, etc. They can also be found in the human intestine.
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Clinical significance
Citrobacter are considered opportunistic nosocomial pathogens, typically associated with urinary tract infections and infant meningitis and sepsis.
Antimicrobial resistance
Citrobacter freundii strains have inducible ampC genes encoding resistance to ampicillin and first-generation cephalosporins. In addition, isolates of Citrobacter may be resistant to many other antibiotics as a result of plasmid-encoded resistance genes.