Chryseobacterium lactis

Maeng, Soohyun, Baek, Chaeyun, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cha, Chang-Jun, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Joh, Ki-seong, Kim, Wonyong, Seong, Chi Nam, Lee, Soon Dong & Yi, Jang-Cheon Cho and Hana, 2018, A report of 28 unrecorded bacterial species, phylum Bacteroidetes, in Korea, Journal of Species Research 7 (2), pp. 104-113 : 112

Description of Chryseobacterium lactis 6024

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are smooth, raised, circular with entire margin, and yellow colored after 2 days on R2A agar at 30°C. Positive for indole production, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase. Negative for oxidase, nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation, and arginine dihydrolase. Uses D-glucose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, D-maltose, and trisodium citrate as a carbon source, but not L-arabinose, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, or phenyl-acetic acid. Strain 6024 (= NIBRBAC 000498573) was isolated from a freshwater sediment, Han River, Korea.