Desulfitobacterium metallireducens

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
Class: Clostridia
Order: Clostridiales
Family: Peptococcaceae
Genus: Desulfitobacterium
Species: D. metallireducens
Binomial name
Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
Finneran et al. 2002

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens is an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Its type strain is 853-15A(T) (= ATCC BAA-636(T)). It was first isolated from a uranium-contaminated quifer sediment.[1]

References

  1. Finneran, K. T. (2002). "Desulfitobacterium metallireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (6): 1929–1935. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02121-0. ISSN 1466-5026.

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