Elizabethkingia miricola JJ

Kim, Haneul, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi Nam, Im, Wan-Taek, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Jeon, Che Ok, Kim, Seung Bum & Joh, Kiseong, 2016, A report of 26 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes, Journal of Species Research 5 (1), pp. 166-178 : 173

Description of Elizabethkingia miricola JJ 9009

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, convex and beige colored after 2 days of incubation on R2A at 25°C. Oxidase- activity is positive. In the API 20NE strip, indole production, esculin hydrolysis, urease, gelatinase and β -galactosidase activities and assimilation of D-glucose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, malic acid and trisodium citrate are positive, but nitrate reduction, glucose fermentation and arginine dihydrolase activity and assimilation of L-arabinose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid are negative. Strain JJ9009 (= NIBRBA0000114160) has been isolated from a fresh water sample, Juwang Mountain, Cheongsong, Korea.