Enterococcus solitarius

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| genus = Enterococcus

| species = solitarius

| authority = Collins et al. 1989{{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Enterococcus|journal=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/enterococcus}}

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Enterococcus solitarius is a species of the genus Enterococcus. It is gram-positive, catalase-negative, and facultatively anaerobic. It was discovered in 1989 alongside Enterococcus raffinosus and Enterococcus pseudoavium{{Cite journal |last=Collins |first=M |date=February 1989 |title=Enterococcus raffinosus sp. nov., Enterococcus solitarius sp. nov. and Enterococcus pseudoavium sp. nov. |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1016/0378-1097(89)90315-7 |journal=FEMS Microbiology Letters |language=en |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=283–288 |doi=10.1016/0378-1097(89)90315-7|doi-access=free }}

Transfer to Tetragenococcus has been proposed.{{cite journal |author=Ennahar S, Cai Y |title=Biochemical and genetic evidence for the transfer of Enterococcus solitarius Collins et al. 1989 to the genus Tetragenococcus as Tetragenococcus solitarius comb. nov |journal=Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. |volume=55 |issue=Pt 2 |pages=589–92 |date=March 2005 |pmid=15774629 |doi=10.1099/ijs.0.63205-0 |url=http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15774629|doi-access=free }}