Candidate Animal Disease Model of Elizabethkingia Spp. Infection in Humans, Based on the Systematic Pathology and Oxidative Damage Caused by E. miricola in Pelophylax nigromaculatus

Table 3

Biochemical characteristics of the isolated strains.

Item	Fy70815 1-3	E. meningoseptica [2]	E. miricola [3]	C. taichungense [3]
Gram staining	-	-	ND	ND
Mobility	-	-	ND	ND
Catalase	+	+	ND	ND
Xylose	-	-	-	(+)
Fructose	+	+	+	ND
Esculin	+	+	+	+
Indole	N	N	V	(+)
Hydrogen sulfide	-	-	V	-
Nitrate	-	-	-	-
Ornithine decarboxylase	-	-	ND	ND
Lysine decarboxylase	-	-	ND	ND
Arginine decarboxylase	-	ND	ND	ND
Arginine double hydrolysis	N	-	ND	ND
Urease	V	-	ND	ND
V-P test	-	-	ND	ND
Arabinose	N	N	-	-

+: positive reaction; -: negative reaction; N: not applicable; V: variable reaction; (+): weak or delayed reaction; ND: not determined.