Comamonas nitrativorans

Comamonas nitrativorans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Genus: Comamonas
Species: C. nitrativorans
Binomial name
Comamonas nitrativorans
Etchebehere et al. 2001, sp. nov.[1]
Type strain
23310, CCT 7062, CCUG 45781, CIP 107121, DSM 13191, LMG 20949, NCCB 100007, strain 23310[2]

Comamonas nitrativorans is a Gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive bacterium from the genus Comamonas, which was isolated from a denitrifying reactor treating landfill leachate.[3] C. nitrativorans has the ability to perform anoxic-reduction of nitrate, nitrite, and nitrous oxide to nitrogen.[4]

References

  1. http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/c/comamonas.html
  2. http://www.straininfo.net/strains/330640
  3. "Comamonas nitrativorans sp. nov., a novel denitrifier isolated from a denitrifying reactor treating landfill leachate.". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 51 (Pt 3): 977–83. May 2001. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-3-977. PMID 11411724.
  4. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/51/3/977.full.pdf

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