Volume 25, Number 10—October 2019
Etymologia
Etymologia: Edwardsiella tarda
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Figure. Dr. P.R. Edwards of the US Public Health Service seated in the background, and George Herman working in the Enteric Bacteriology Unit Laboratory. Dr. Edwards joined the staff of the Communicable...
In 1965, a group of CDC researchers described a species of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae, which they named Edwardsiella (for CDC microbiologist Philip R. Edwards) tarda (Latin, “slow,” referring to biochemical inactivity and the fact that it ferments few carbohydrates) (Figure). These organisms infect a variety of fish, reptiles, and amphibians and are opportunistic pathogens for humans.
References
- Ewing WH, McWhorter AC, Escobar MR, Lubin AH. Edwardsiella, a new genus of Enterobacteriaceae based on a new species, E. tarda. Int Bull Bacteriol Nomencl Taxon. 1965;15:33–8. DOIGoogle Scholar
- Abbott SL, Janda JM. The genus Edwardsiella. In: Dworkin M, editor. The prokaryotes. New York: Springer; 2006. p. 72–89.
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