infections, often nosocomial. The term Proteus signifies changeability of form, as personified in the Homeric poems in Proteus, "the old man of the sea", who...

Proteus mirabilis is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. It shows swarming motility and urease activity. P. mirabilis causes...

Proteus vulgaris is a rod-shaped, nitrate-reducing, indole-positive and catalase-positive, hydrogen sulfide-producing, Gram-negative bacterium that inhabits...

Proteus OX19 is a strain of the Proteus vulgaris bacterium. In 1915, Arthur Felix and Edward Weil discovered that Proteus OX19 reacted to the same human...

Look up Proteus or protean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Proteus is an early Greek water god. Proteus may also refer to: Charles Proteus Steinmetz...

heterotrophic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium mainly found in areas with a warm climate. This bacterium can be found in fresh or brackish water....

Proteus hauseri is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. Similar to other members of the Enterobacterales order, Proteus hauseri...

that turns red due to the bacterium's acid production during fermentation. Similar bacteria from the closely related Proteus and Providencia genera, M...

Proteus penneri is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. It is an invasive pathogen and a cause of nosocomial infections of...

also called a bacilliform bacterium or often just a rod (when the context makes the sense clear), is a rod-shaped bacterium or archaeon. Bacilli are found...