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Species of bacterium From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enterocloster clostridioformis, formerly known as Clostridium clostridioforme, is an anaerobic, motile, Gram-positive bacterium.[2]
Enterocloster clostridioformis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacillota |
Class: | Clostridia |
Order: | Eubacteriales |
Family: | Lachnospiraceae |
Genus: | Enterocloster |
Species: | E. clostridioformis |
Binomial name | |
Enterocloster clostridioformis (Burri and Ankersmit 1906) Haas and Blanchard 2020 [1] | |
Synonyms | |
E. clostridioformis are rod-shaped bacteria which cannot grow in the presence of oxygen.[3] While Clostridium species have cell walls that resemble gram-positive bacteria, E. clostridioformis often appears negative by Gram stain.[4]
The organism now classified as E. clostridioformis was first identified in the 1950s in human and animal feces and assigned to the genus of Gram-negative non-spore-forming bacteria Bacteroides.[4] In subsequent years, these bacteria were shown to form spores, causing them to be reclassified in the genus Clostridium.[4] Most recently this species has been reclassified as E. clostridioformis based on phylogeny.
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