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Clostridium

Clostridium

(Science: bacteria) genus of gram-positive anaerobic spore forming bacilli commonly found in soil. Many species produce exotoxins of great potency, the best known being clostridium botulinum and clostridium tetani.


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Corynebacteria vs Clostridia

... all ID'ed as corynebacterium spp. The other 15 had very little growth and only one of these had enough growth for a full ID. This one came off as Clostridium. Would the gram stains of corynebacterium and clostridium be at all similar? After reading up, Clostridium seems to be commonly be gram ...

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by miles500
Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:07 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Corynebacteria vs Clostridia
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Question about anaerobic bacteria prd of H2

You are looking for various heterofermentative bacteria such as Clostridium sp.; substrate is usually glucose.

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by Cat
Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:35 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Question about anaerobic bacteria prd of H2
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kitasamycin is Belonging to the macrolide antibiotic

... ◇Sensitive to Streptococcus suis, Corynebacterium pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Corynebacterium diphtheria, Clostridium perfrigens, Haemophilusparagellinarum, Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia , Campybacter coli.

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by hinapharm
Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:23 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: kitasamycin is Belonging to the macrolide antibiotic
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help identifying unknown bacteria

... I didn't run as many tests as you did, but can tell you some information for three types of Bacillus -- you definetly have either Bacillus or Clostridium if you have endospores. (I didn't try the link from BDeis but will use it when we do our next project to identify many bacteria from one ...

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by Nancy
Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:04 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: help identifying unknown bacteria
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Glycolysis

... need a decarboxylation process before it can be yielded). Another microorganisms which live in a high reducing soil (anaerobic condition) like Clostridium sp. converts pyruvate into acetate. And many mooooreee.... :lol:

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by victor
Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:21 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Glycolysis
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