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Three isolates of novel polyphosphate-accumulating gram-positive cocci, obtained from activated sludge, belong to a new genus, Tetrasphaera gen. nov., and description of two new species, Tetrasphaera japonica sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera australiensis sp. nov.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Mar 2000
Maszenan A M, Seviour R J, Patel B K, Schumann P, Burghardt J, Tokiwa Y, Stratton H M
Abstract excerpt
Two isolates of Gram-positive cocci (Ben 109T and Ben 110) which could accumulate polyphosphate and were microscopically similar in appearance to so-called 'G-bacteria', appearing as tetrads, were isolated from samples of activated sludge biomass by micromanipulation and grown in axenic culture. On the basis of their phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characters and 16S rDNA sequences, these isolates, together with...
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