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Volume 25, Number 10—October 2019
Etymologia

Etymologia: Edwardsiella tarda

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Edwardsiella tarda [ed-wahrdʺse-elʹǝ tarʹdǝ]

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Thumbnail of Dr. P.R. Edwards of the US Public Health Service seated in the background, and George Herman working in the Enteric Bacteriology Unit Laboratory. Dr. Edwards joined the staff of the Communicable Disease Center of the Public Health Service in 1948 and served as Chief of the Enteric Bacteriology Unit until June 1962, when he accepted the post of Chief of the Bacteriology Section at CDC. Image source: Public Health Image Library.

Figure. Dr. P.R. Edwards of the US Public Health Service seated in the background, and George Herman working in the Enteric Bacteriology Unit Laboratory. Dr. Edwards joined the staff of the Communicable...

In 1965, a group of CDC researchers described a species of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae, which they named Edwardsiella (for CDC microbiologist Philip R. Edwards) tarda (Latin, “slow,” referring to biochemical inactivity and the fact that it ferments few carbohydrates) (Figure). These organisms infect a variety of fish, reptiles, and amphibians and are opportunistic pathogens for humans.

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References

  1. Ewing  WH, McWhorter  AC, Escobar  MR, Lubin  AH. Edwardsiella, a new genus of Enterobacteriaceae based on a new species, E. tarda. Int Bull Bacteriol Nomencl Taxon. 1965;15:338. DOIGoogle Scholar
  2. Abbott  SL, Janda  JM. The genus Edwardsiella. In: Dworkin M, editor. The prokaryotes. New York: Springer; 2006. p. 72–89.

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DOI: 10.3201/eid2510.et2510

Original Publication Date: September 04, 2019

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