Clostridium leptum
| Clostridium leptum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Firmicutes |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Clostridiales |
| Family: | Clostridiaceae |
| Genus: | Clostridium |
| Species: | C. leptum |
| Binomial name | |
| Clostridium leptum Moore et al., 1976[1] | |
Clostridium leptum is a bacterium species in the genus Clostridium.
It forms a subgroup of human fecal microflora[2] and is associated with patient with inflammatory bowel disease.[3]
| NCBI genome ID | 951 |
|---|---|
| Ploidy | haploid |
| Genome size | 3.27 Mb |
| Number of chromosomes | 1 |
The genome of C. leptum has been sequenced.
References
- ↑ Moore, W. E. C; Johnson, J. L.; Holdeman, L. V. (1976). "Emendation of Bacteroidaceae and Butyrivibrio and Descriptions Of desulfomonas gen. nov. And Ten New Species in the Genera Desulfomonas, Butyrivibrio, Eubacterium, Clostridium, and Ruminococcus". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 26 (2): 238. doi:10.1099/00207713-26-2-238.
- ↑ Shen, J.; Zhang, B.; Wei, G.; Pang, X.; Wei, H.; Li, M.; Zhang, Y.; Jia, W.; Zhao, L. (2006). "Molecular Profiling of the Clostridium leptum Subgroup in Human Fecal Microflora by PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Clone Library Analysis". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72 (8): 5232–8. doi:10.1128/AEM.00151-06. PMC 1538713. PMID 16885270.
- ↑ Kabeerdoss, Jayakanthan; Sankaran, Vijayalakshmi; Pugazhendhi, Srinivasan; Ramakrishna, Balakrishnan S (2013). "Clostridium leptum group bacteria abundance and diversity in the fecal microbiota of patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A case–control study in India". BMC Gastroenterology 13: 20. doi:10.1186/1471-230X-13-20. PMC 3565871. PMID 23351032.
External links
"Clostridium leptum". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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