General Characteristic
banyak spesies hidup di lingkungan hidup/mati, seringnya hidup di GIT as opportunistic organism, beberapa menyebabkan nosocomial infection, most fakultatif anaerobes, tes oxidase (-)
Morphology
gram negative, small (0,5 nm), nonspora, most motile (peritrichous flagella), most fimbrai / pili, cell wall dari murein & lipopolisakarida