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Bacteria => Firmicutes => Bacilli => Bacillales => Bacillaceae => Bacillus => Bacillus macroides Bennett and Canale-Parola (1965)
Old synonym: Lineola longa Pringsheim (1950) .
Strain LMG 18508 of Bacillus macroides is now included in species Bacillus simplex (ex Meyer and Gottheil 1901) Priest et al. 1989.
Old synonym: Lineola longa Pringsheim (1950) .
Strain LMG 18508 of Bacillus macroides is now included in species Bacillus simplex (ex Meyer and Gottheil 1901) Priest et al. 1989.
Gram positive, 0.9-1.1/3.0-4.5 μm, motile with peritrichous flagella. Spores: ellipsoidal, subterminal or terminal. Swelling the
sporangia is variable.
sporangia is variable.
Maximum temperature 40 ºC; minimum temperature 15 ºC.
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 cow dung, plant material decaying in water.
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. - Jeroen Heyrman, Niall A. Logan, Marina Rodríguez-Díaz, Patsy Scheldeman, Liesbeth Lebbe, Jean Swings, Marc Heyndrickx,
and Paul De Vos: Study of mural painting isolates, leading to the transfer of ‘Bacillus maroccanus’ and ‘Bacillus carotarum’ to
Bacillus simplex, emended description of Bacillus simplex, re-examination of the strains previously attributed to ‘Bacillus
macroides’ and description of Bacillus muralis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol January 2005 55:119-131.
Biochemically is very similar to Bacillus simplex.
Positive results for catalase & deamination of phenylalanine.
Negative results for: starch hydrolysis, reduction of nitrate to nitrite, decomposition of
casein, decomposition of tyrosine, Voges-Proskauer test, resistance to lysozyme,
citrate utilization, indole production, acid production from: glucose,
mannitol,arabinose & xylose.
Positive results for catalase & deamination of phenylalanine.
Negative results for: starch hydrolysis, reduction of nitrate to nitrite, decomposition of
casein, decomposition of tyrosine, Voges-Proskauer test, resistance to lysozyme,
citrate utilization, indole production, acid production from: glucose,
mannitol,arabinose & xylose.
(c) Costin Stoica
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