^^***Pseudomonas*** **Nonfluorescent Group**^^
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* __**Wrinkled, leathery, adherent colonies**__
* **Light-yellow** or **brown pigment**
* __**ADH negative**__
* Starch hydrolysis **positive**
* Can grow in an anaerobic environment in nitrate-containing media --- nitrogen gas
* Septicemia, meningitis in the human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient, pneumonia (especially in CF and immunocompromised patients), endocarditis, postsurgical wound infections, septic arthritis, conjunctivitis, and UTIs
* usually the isolates are ADH negative and starch hydrolysis positive can be used to distinguish the *Pseudomonas stutzeri* from most other Pseudomonas species; this is one of their characteristics
* they are also able to **produce nitrogen gas** (can also be used to distinguish Pseudomonas stutzeri from most other pseudomonas species