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Description of the Pathogen The genus Aeromonas (from the Greek “Aer”: gas; and “Monas”: unit; meaning “gas producing units”) consists of environmental, facultatively anaerobic, gram-negative bacilli that are predominantly motile as a result of a single polar flagellum. Although at…
Yersinia species are bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Of 15 species of Yersinia , only Yersinia enterocolitica , Y. pseudotuberculosis , and Y. pestis are human pathogens. Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis are enteropathogens transmitted by consumption of contaminated food…