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A motile curved rod-shaped bacterium was isolated in pure culture from a glycolate-fermenting mixed culture by using citrate as the growth substrate. The purified strain, designated 19gly1, was an obligate anaerobe growing optimally in freshwater medium at neutral pH and 37°C. The organism was gram-negative, lacked cytochromes, and had a DNA mol % G+C ratio of 36. Strain 19gly1 grew on only a limited range of substrates, including citrate and succinate. No growth occurred on glycolate, on carbohydrates or on H2 plus CO2. Metabolism was by fermentation only. The strain was different to previously described species of bacteria and assigned to the heterogeneous assemblage of “Campylobacter-like” strains. Strain 19gly1 has been deposited with the Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen as DSM 6222.
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Janssen, P.H. Characterization of a succinate-fermenting anaerobic bacterium isolated from a glycolate-degrading mixed culture. Arch. Microbiol. 155, 288–293 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00252214
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