Clostridium vulturis explained

Clostridium vulturis is a gram-positive, rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacterium, originally found in the intestine of a cinereous vulture in Korea.^{[1] [2]} Part of the Clostridium genus, C. vulturis is closely related to Clostridium subterminale (96.9% genome similarity), Clostridium thiosulfatireducens (96.7% genome similarity), Clostridium sulfidigenes (96.6% genome similarity), and Clostridium amazonense (with 97.4% genome similarity).^[3]

Clostridium vulturis produces several fermentation products, including acetate, butyrate, ethanol, propanol, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen.

Notes and References

1. Paek . Jayoung . Lee . Mi-Hwa . Kim . Byung-Chun . Sang . Byoung-In . Paek . Woon Kee . Jin . Tae-Eun . Shin . Yeseul . Park . In-Soon . Chang . Young-Hyo . September 2014 . Clostridium vulturis sp. nov., isolated from the intestine of the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek . 106 . 3 . 577–583 . 10.1007/s10482-014-0229-x . 1572-9699 . 25063360. 254228780 .
2. Web site: Species: Clostridium vulturis . 2023-01-24 . lpsn.dsmz.de . en.
3. O'Neal . Lindsey . Obregón-Tito . Alexandra J. . Tito . Raul Y. . Ozga . Andrew T. . Polo . Susan I. . Lewis . Cecil M. . Lawson . Paul A. . October 2015 . Clostridium amazonense sp. nov. an obliqately anaerobic bacterium isolated from a remote Amazonian community in Peru . Anaerobe . 35 . Pt B . 33–37 . 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2015.06.005 . 1095-8274 . 4600439 . 26123611.