Biology:Clostridium clostridioforme

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Short description: Species of bacterium


Clostridium clostridioforme
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Cl. clostridioforme
Binomial name
Clostridium clostridioforme
(Burri and Ankersmit 1906) Kaneuchi et al. 1976
Synonyms

Bacteroides clostridiiformis

Clostridium clostridioforme is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium.

Description

Like other species in the genus Clostridium, C. clostridioforme are rod-shaped bacteria which cannot grow in the presence of oxygen.[1] While Clostridium species have cell walls that resemble gram-positive bacteria, C. clostridioforme often appears negative by Gram stain.[2]

History

The organisms now classified as C. clostridioforme were first identified in the 1950s in human and animal feces and assigned to the genus of gram-negative non-spore-forming bacteria Bacteroides.[2] In subsequent years, these bacteria were shown to form spores, causing them to be reclassified in the genus Clostridium.[2]

References

  1. Juergen Wiegel (14 September 2015). "Clostridiaceae". in William Whitman. Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00129. ISBN 9781118960608. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kaneuchi, C; Watanabe, K; Terada, A; Benno, Y; Mitsuoka, T (1976). "Taxonomic Study of Bacteroides clostridiiformis subsp. Clostridiiformis (Burri and Ankersmit) Holdeman and Moore and of Related Organisms: Proposal of Clostridium clostridiiformis (Burri and Ankersmit) comb. Nov. And Clostridium symbiosum (Stevens) comb. Nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 26 (2): 195. doi:10.1099/00207713-26-2-195. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3681041 entry