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Phyllobacterium catacumbae sp. nov., a member of the order 'Rhizobiales' isolated from Roman catacombs.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Jul 2005
Jurado V, Laiz L, Gonzalez J M, Hernandez-Marine M, Valens M, Saiz-Jimenez C
Abstract excerpt
Two strains were isolated from tuff, a volcanic rock that forms the walls of the Roman Catacombs of Saint Callixtus in Rome, Italy. A polyphasic approach using nutritional and physiological tests, reactions to antibiotics, fatty acid profiles, DNA base ratios, DNA-DNA reassociation and 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons showed that the two isolates belong to a novel species within the genus Phyllobacterium. The...
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