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Aerobic Bacteria

Aerobic Bacteria

It is an organism or aerobes that requires oxygen to survive and grow in the environment. There are 4 categories of aerobes.

  1. Obligate Aerobes – need oxygen to grow. In a process known as cellular respiration, these organisms use oxygen to oxidize substrates (for example sugars and fats) and generate energy
  2. Facultative Aerobes – use oxygen if it is available, but also have anaerobic methods of energy production.
  3. Microaerophilic –require oxygen for energy production, but are harmed by atmospheric concentrations of oxygen (21% O2).
  4. Aerotolerant – do not use oxygen but are not harmed by it.

Gram-POSITIVE Aerobic Bacteria

Rods/Bacilli
    • Arcanobacterium
    • Bacillus
    • Corynebacterium
    • Erysipelothrix
    • Gardnerella
    • Lactobacillus
    • Listeria
    • Mycobacterium
    • Nocardia
Cocci
    • Staphylococcus
    • Streptococcus

Gram-NEGATIVE Aerobic Bacteria

Rods/Bacilli
    • Citrobacter
    • Edwardsiella
    • Enterobacter
    • Escheria 
    • Hafnia
    • Klebsiella
    • Morganella
    • Proteus
    • Providencia
    • Salmonella
    • Serratia
    • Shigella
    • Yersinia
    • Aeromonas
    • Pasteurella
    • Plesiomonas
    • Vibrio
    • Acinetobacter
    • Alcaligenes
    • Burkholderia 
    • Flavobacterium
    • Pseudomonas
    • Stenotrophomonas
Cocci
    • Moraxella
    • Neisseria
Coccobacilli
    • Bartonella
    • Bordetella
    • Brucella
    • Campylobacter
    • Eikenella
    • Franciscella
    • Haemophilus
    • Helicobacter Kingella

List of Aerobe Bacteria

Bacillus
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Nocardia
Lactobacillus
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

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