# Pasteurella aerogenes

National Cancer Institute

## Source

National Cancer Institute. *Pasteurella aerogenes*. NCI Thesaurus. Code C86637.

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is nonmotile, catalase, oxidase, and urease positive, indole, ornithine decarboxylase, gelatinase and Voges-Proskauer test negative, reduces nitrate, is not beta-hemolytic, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, grows on MacConkey's agar, and does not hydrolyze Tween 20 or 80. P. aerogenes is found in the intestinal tract of pigs and is pathogenic to humans.