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An investigation of gram-negative tannin-protein complex degrading bacteria in fecal flora of various mammals.
The Journal of veterinary medical science - 1 Oct 1995
Nemoto K, Osawa R, Hirota K, Ono T, Miyake Y
Abstract excerpt
Gram-negative tannin-protein complex degrading bacteria (T-PCDB) were first isolated from animals except for the koala. The occurrence of T-PCDB in feces of 15 species of mammals with different feeding habits was investigated. T-PCDB occurred in 7 of 54 horses but they could not be isolated from other mammals tested. These T-PCDB comprised less than 0.1% of the facultative anaerobic microflora in horse feces and...
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