Desulfitobacterium_metallireducens

<i>Desulfitobacterium metallireducens</i>

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens

Species of bacterium

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens is an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Its type strain is 853-15A(T) (= ATCC BAA-636(T)). It was first isolated from a uranium-contaminated aquifer sediment.[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    Finneran, K. T. (2002). "Desulfitobacterium metallireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (6): 1929–1935. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02121-0. ISSN 1466-5026.

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