Enterocloster clostridioformis

Enterocloster clostridioformis, formerly known as Clostridium clostridioforme, is an anaerobic, motile, Gram-positive bacterium [1] .

Enterocloster clostridioformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Division:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Family:
Lachnospiraceae
Genus:
Enterocloster
Species:
E. clostridioformis
Binomial name
Enterocloster clostridioformis
(Burri and Ankersmit 1906, Kaneuchi et al. 1976) Haas and Blanchard 2020.
Synonyms

Bacteroides clostridiiformis

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.[3]

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.

References
  1. https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003698?TRACK=RSS
  2. Juergen Wiegel (14 September 2015). "Clostridiaceae". In William Whitman (ed.). Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00129. ISBN 9781118960608.
  3. 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.


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