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Clostridium lactatifermen tans sp. nov., a lactate-fermenting anaerobe isolated from the caeca of a chicken.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2002
van der Wielen Paul W J J, Rovers Gerben M L L, Scheepens Judith M A, Biesterveld Steef
Abstract excerpt
An obligately anaerobic, lactate-fermenting bacterium (strain G17T) was isolated from the caeca of a 31-day-old chicken. Grown at neutral pH, cells were rod-shaped with tapered ends and showed no motility and no spore formation. Electron microscopy showed that the cell walls had a gram-positive structure. The DNA G+C content was 44.6 mol %. Based on 16S rDNA sequence analysis, strain G17T was considered to belong...
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