Family Enterobacteriaceae

Lactose fermentation +ve

1. Escherichia coli
2. Klebsiella spp. (oxytoca, pneumoniae subsp. ozaenae,
pneumoniae)
3. Enterobacter spp. (aerogens, cloacae, amnigenus,
intermedius)
4. Citrobacter spp. (diversus, freundii)
5. Serratia spp. (fonticola, rubidaea)
6. Erwinia spp. (carotovora, chrysanthemi)
Indole test
positive

negative

Escherichia coli
pneumoniae
Klebsiella oxytoca
pneumoniae)
Citrobacter diversus
Erwinia chrysanthemi
(fonticola, rubidaea)

Klebsiella
subsp. ozaenae,
Citrobacter freundii
Serratia spp.
Erwinia carotovora

Citrate test

MR-VP test
Negative
E. coli

+/+

-/+
Positive
Cit. diversus (VP -ve)
K.pn. pneumo
K. oxytoca (VP +ve, H2S -ve)
E. aerogenes
Er. chrysanthemi (VP, H2S +ve)
E. cloacae

E.intermedius

+/-

E.
amnigenus
Citr. freundii
Er. carotovora
K. pn. ozaenae
rubidaea
S. fonticola

S.