Biology:Catenibacterium mitsuokai

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Short description: Species of bacterium


Catenibacterium mitsuokai
Scientific classification edit
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Catenibacterium
Species:
Binomial name
Template:Taxonomy/CatenibacteriumCatenibacterium mitsuokai
Kageyama & Benno 2000[1]
Type strain
CCUG 48821 A, CCUG 48821 B, CIP 106738, DSM 15897, JCM 10609, RCA 14‑39[2]
Synonyms

Catenabacterium mitsuokai[2]

Catenibacterium mitsuokai is a species of Gram-positive and strictly anaerobic bacteria in the genus Catenibacterium, first described in 2000 following isolation from human feces in Japan.[3]

Ecology and distribution

In addition to humans, C. mitsuokai has been recovered from the lower gastrointestinal tract of pigs.[4]

Etymology

The genus name Catenibacterium is derived from Latin catena (a chain) and bacterium (a rod), referring to the bacterium's chain-forming morphology. The species epithet mitsuokai is the genitive form of Mitsuoka, honoring K. Mitsuoka, a Japanese microbiologist.

References

  1. Parte, A.C.. "Catenibacterium". List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature. https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/catenibacterium. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Catenibacterium mitsuokai". https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/100886. 
  3. Kageyama, A.; Benno, Y. (July 2000). "Catenibacterium mitsuokai gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-positive anaerobic bacterium isolated from human faeces.". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 50 (4): 1595–1599. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-4-1595. PMID 10939666. 
  4. Rahman, N.; McCullough, T.; Orozco, D.F.; Walkowiak, S.; Farzan, A.; Shekarriz, S.; Surette, M.G.; Cicek, N. et al. (18 June 2025). "Genomic characterization of antimicrobial resistance and mobile genetic elements in swine gut bacteria isolated from a Canadian research farm". Animal Microbiome 7 (1): 66. doi:10.1186/s42523-025-00432-w. PMID 40533851. 

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