Formerly type strain of P. vulgaris (Replacement of strain NCTC 4175, since 1963 the neotype strain of Proteus vulgaris, with strain ATCC 29905 -- Opinion 70 (Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology). Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 49: 1949, 1999.) quality control strain for Abbott, API, and Sensititre products Control Culture (Salmonella in Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) by Modified Semisolid Rappaport-Vassiliadis (MSRV) Medium. Washington, DC: Environmental Protection Agency; EPA EPA Method 1682, 2005.) Decarboxylation of neutral amino acids (Ekladius L, et al. Decarboxylation of neutral amino acids in Proteus vulgaris. J. Gen. Microbiol. 17: 602-619, 1957. ) Quality control strain according to DIN 58959-7 Produces restriction endonuclease PvuI and PvuII (Roberts RJ. Restriction and modification enzymes and their recognition sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 13: r165-r200, 1985.)
ID checked by 16S sequencing