Enterobacterales

Order of diverse facultatively anaerobic and rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria that includes many bacteria that infect people.

The Enterobacterales order includes the families Enterobacteriaceae, Morganellaceae, Yersiniaceae, Erwiniaceae, Hafniaceae and others.

Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the ‘Enterobacteriales’: proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Free (International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2016)

An update on the novel genera and species and revised taxonomic status of bacterial organisms described in 2016 and 2017 (Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2019)