Clostridium clostridioforme

Clostridium clostridioforme is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium.

Clostridium clostridioforme
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Division:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Family:
Clostridiaceae
Genus:
Clostridium
Species:
Cl. clostridioforme
Binomial name
Clostridium clostridioforme
(Burri and Ankersmit 1906) Kaneuchi et al. 1976
Synonyms

Bacteroides clostridiiformis

Description

Like other species in the genus Clostridium, C. clostridioforme are rod-shaped bacteria which cannot grow in the presence of oxygen.[1] While Clostridium species have cell walls that resemble gram-positive bacteria, C. clostridioforme often appears negative by Gram stain.[2]

History

The organisms now classified as C. clostridioforme were first identified in the 1950s in human and animal feces and assigned to the genus of gram-negative non-spore-forming bacteria Bacteroides.[2] In subsequent years, these bacteria were shown to form spores, causing them to be reclassified in the genus Clostridium.[2]

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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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