Growth requirements and fermentation products of Fusobacterium prausnitzii, and a proposal to reclassify it as Faecalibacterium prausnitzii gen. nov., comb. nov

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2141-2146

  Duncan, Sylvia H ^a   Hold, Georgina L ^a   Harmsen, Hermie J M ^b   Stewart, Colin S ^a   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Butyrate; D lactate; Faecalibacterium prausnitzii; Fusobacterium; Human faeces

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; CYTOSINE; DNA; FORMIC ACID; GUANOSINE; HYDROGEN; LACTIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM LEPTUM; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FECES; FUSOBACTERIUM; FUSOBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; GRAM NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH JUICE; TYPE STRAIN;

BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; FERMENTATION; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC STRAIGHT, CURVED, AND HELICAL RODS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TERMINOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM LEPTUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FUSOBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036866628     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02241-0     Document Type: Article

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