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Bacteria => Firmicutes => Bacilli => Bacillales => Bacillaceae => Bacillus => Bacillus freudenreichii (Miquel) Chester (1898).
Old synonym: Urobacillus freudenreichii Miquel (1890)
Old synonym: Urobacillus freudenreichii Miquel (1890)
Gram positive, 0.6-0.7/1.0-5.0 μm, motile with peritrichous flagella. Spores: ellipsoidal ,central or paracentral, not swelling the
sporangia.
sporangia.
Maximum temperature 40-45ºC; minimum temperature 15-20ºC
No growth in anaerobic agar
Growth in 5% NaCl, but not in 10% NaCl.
No growth at 5.7 pH.
No growth in anaerobic agar
Growth in 5% NaCl, but not in 10% NaCl.
No growth at 5.7 pH.
Isolated from soil, river water and sewage
Unknown.
- Gordon R.E., Haynes W.C., Pang C.H. (1973) – The genus Bacillus . Agriculture Handbook No. 427, U.S.D.A., Washington D.C.
- Buchanan R.E., Gibbons N.E., Cowan S.T., Holt J.G., Liston J., Murray R.G.E., Niven C.F., Ravin A.W., Stanier R.W. ( 1974) –
Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eight Edition, The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore.
Positive results for catalase, decomposition of tyrosine, deamination of phenylalanine.
Negative results for starch hydrolysis, reduction of nitrate to nitrite, decomposition of
casein, Voges-Proskauer reaction, resistance to lysozyme, citrate utilization, indole
production, acid production from glucose, mannitol, arabinose & xylose.
Negative results for starch hydrolysis, reduction of nitrate to nitrite, decomposition of
casein, Voges-Proskauer reaction, resistance to lysozyme, citrate utilization, indole
production, acid production from glucose, mannitol, arabinose & xylose.
(c) Costin Stoica
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