Weissella

Taxobox
name="Weissella"

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image_caption=Lesions of "Weissella confusa" in the mona monkey (hematoxylin and eosin stain): A) liver: portal triads with neutrophilic infiltration (x10); A1, presence of bacterial emboli inside the vein (arrow) (x40). B) acute pneumonia: edema, congestion, and leukocyte cells exudation in the pulmonary alveoli (x10). C) encephalitis: congestion and marginalized neutrophils in nervous vessels (x10)
regnum=Bacteria
divisio=Firmicutes
classis=Bacilli
ordo=Lactobacillales
familia=Leuconostocaceae
genus="Weissella"
genus_authority=Collins et al. 1994
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"W. cibaria"
*"W. confusa"
*"W. halotolerans"
*"W. hellenica"
*"W. kandleri"
*"W. koreensis"
*"W. minor"
*"W. paramesenteroides"
*"W. soli"
*"W. thailandensis"
*"W. viridescens" type

"Weissella" [Björkroth, J., and W. Holzapfel. 2006. Genera Leuconostoc, Oenococcus and Weissella, p.267 -319. In M. Dworkin (ed.), The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria: Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria, vol. 4, 3rd ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30744-3] ] is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria, placed within the family of Leuconostocaceae. The morphology of weissellas varies from spherical or lenticular cells to irregular rods.

References

External links

* [http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/uw/weissella.html List of species of the genus Weissella]
* [http://origin.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no10/02-0667.htm "Weissella confusa" Infection in Primate ("Cercopithecus mona")]