Yokenella
Genus of bacteria
Yokenella is a genus of bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Yokenella are Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacteria. Strains of bacteria forming this genus were originally isolated from clinical samples, from the boxelder bug, and from alligators.
There is only one species in this genus: Yokenella regensburgei.
Yokenella is not an important pathogen, but it has been found in sporadic cases of finger osteitis, necrotizing fasciitis, in urinary tract infections, and a few other diseases, some of which may have been caused by immunosupression.
A draft genome sequence is 5,277,883 bp in size and has 5,416 genes. The genome is thus larger than average bacterial genomes, such as Escherichia coli whose genome is about 4 MB in size.
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