Rarimicrobium Jumas-Bilak et al. 2015
General information
Name
Rarimicrobium
Valid publication
2015
Nomenclature type
Rarimicrobium hominis
Etymology
L. adj. <i>rarus</i>, rare; N.L. neut. n. <i>microbium</i>, microbe; N.L. neut. n. <i>Rarimicrobium</i>, microbe rarely encountered.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Cells are Gram-stain-negative rods. Strictly anaerobic. Slow-growing and non-haemolytic on Columbia blood agar. Non-spore-forming and immobile. Mainly asaccharolytic and unreactive in most conventional biochemical tests. Major cellular fatty acids are C13:0 and C16:0. The DNA G+C content of the type species is 57 mol%.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M022801010112001 | Rarimicrobium hominis | Species | 434126 |
References
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Jumas-Bilak, E., Bouvet, P., Allen-Vercoe, E., Aujoulat, F., Lawson, P.A., Jean-Pierre, H., and Marchandin, H. Rarimicrobium hominis gen. nov., sp. nov., the fifth genus in the phylum Synergistetes that includes human clinical isolates. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2015) 65:3965-3970.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.000520]
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