Enterocloster clostridioformis explained
Enterocloster clostridioformis, formerly known as Clostridium clostridioforme, is an anaerobic, motile, Gram-positive bacterium.[1]
Description
E. clostridioformis are rod-shaped bacteria which cannot grow in the presence of oxygen.[2] While Clostridium species have cell walls that resemble gram-positive bacteria, E. clostridioformis often appears negative by Gram stain.
History
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.[3] In subsequent years, these bacteria were shown to form spores, causing them to be reclassified in the genus Clostridium.[3] Most recently this species has been reclassified as E. clostridioformis based on phylogeny.
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Notes and References
- Reclassification of the Clostridium clostridioforme and Clostridium sphenoides clades As enterocloster gen. nov. And lacrimispora gen. nov., including reclassification of 15 taxa. 10.1099/ijsem.0.003698. 2020. Haas. Kelly N.. Blanchard. Jeffrey L.. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70. 1. 23–34. 31782700. 208358321. free.
- Book: 10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00129 . Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria . John Wiley & Sons . 14 September 2015 . Clostridiaceae . Juergen Wiegel . 1–5 . William Whitman . 9781118960608.
- 10.1099/00207713-26-2-195 . 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 . 1976 . Kaneuchi . C . Watanabe . K . Terada . A . Benno . Y . Mitsuoka . T . free .
