- Lang, Elke;
- Teshima, Hazuki;
- Lucas, Susan;
- Lapidus, Alla;
- Hammon, Nancy;
- Deshpande, Shweta;
- Nolan, Matt;
- Cheng, Jan-Fang;
- Pitluck, Sam;
- Liolios, Konstantinos;
- Pagani, Ioanna;
- Mikhailova, Natalia;
- Ivanova, Natalia;
- Mavromatis, Konstantinos;
- Pati, Amrita;
- Tapia, Roxane;
- Han, Cliff;
- Goodwin, Lynne;
- Chen, Amy;
- Palaniappan, Krishna;
- Land, Miriam;
- Hauser, Loren;
- Chang, Yun-Juan;
- Jeffries, Cynthia D;
- Brambilla, Evelyne-Marie;
- Kopitz, Markus;
- Rohde, Manfred;
- Göker, Markus;
- Tindall, Brian J;
- Detter, John C;
- Woyke, Tanja;
- Bristow, James;
- Eisen, Jonathan A;
- Markowitz, Victor;
- Hugenholtz, Philip;
- Klenk, Hans-Peter;
- Kyrpides, Nikos C
Weeksella virosa Holmes et al. 1987 is the sole member and type species of the genus Weeksella which belongs to the family Flavobacteriaceae of the phylum Bacteroidetes. Twenty-nine isolates, collected from clinical specimens provided the basis for the taxon description. While the species seems to be a saprophyte of the mucous membranes of healthy man and warm-blooded animals a causal relationship with disease has been reported in a few instances. Except for the ability to produce indole and to hydrolyze Tween and proteins such as casein and gelatin, this aerobic, non-motile, non-pigmented bacterial species is metabolically inert in most traditional biochemical tests. The 2,272,954 bp long genome with its 2,105 protein-coding and 76 RNA genes consists of one circular chromosome and is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.