Comamonas kerstersii

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| genus = Comamonas

| species = kerstersii

| authority = Wauters et al. 2003{{Cite web |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/comamonas |title=Genus: Comamonas |access-date=2013-05-10 }}

| type_strain = AF61, AFG1, Caselitz AF61, CCUG 15333, CIP 107987, DSM 16026, GUH/UCL C079, LMG 3475{{Cite web |url=http://www.straininfo.net/strains/323295 |title=Caselitz Strain Passport - StrainInfo |access-date=2013-05-10 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031632/http://www.straininfo.net/strains/323295 |url-status=dead }}

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Comamonas kerstersii is a Gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive, motile bacterium with multitrichous polar flagella from the genus Comamonas and family Comamonadaceae.http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/53/3/859.full.pdf{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} C. kerstersii is a subgroup of Comamonas terrigena,{{Cite journal

| pmid = 12807213

| year = 2003

| last1 = Wauters

| first1 = G

| title = Description of Comamonas aquatica comb. Nov. And Comamonas kerstersii sp. nov. For two subgroups of Comamonas terrigena and emended description of Comamonas terrigena

| journal = International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

| volume = 53

| issue = Pt 3

| pages = 859–62

| last2 = De Baere

| first2 = T

| last3 = Willems

| first3 = A

| last4 = Falsen

| first4 = E

| last5 = Vaneechoutte

| first5 = M

| doi=10.1099/ijs.0.02450-0

| doi-access = free

}} and has been linked to cases of perforated appendices.{{Cite journal

| pmid = 24829228

| pmc = 4136147

| year = 2014

| last1 = Biswas

| first1 = J. S.

| title = Comamonas kerstersii and the perforated appendix

| journal = Journal of Clinical Microbiology

| volume = 52

| issue = 8

| pages = 3134

| last2 = Fitchett

| first2 = J

| last3 = O'Hara

| first3 = G

| doi = 10.1128/JCM.00909-14

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