| Alistipes finegoldii | |
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| Species: | A. finegoldii |
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| Alistipes finegoldii Rautio et al. 2003 [1] | |
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| AHN 2437, ANH 2437, CCUG 46020, CIP 107999, DSM 17242, JCM 16770, VTT E-093113T [2] | |
Alistipes finegoldii is a bacterium from the genus of Alistipes which has been isolated from appendix tissue from a human from Helsinki in Finland. [1] [3] [4] [5] [6] The species is named in honor of Sydney M. Finegold.
[7] A. finegoldii is a gram negative straight rod shaped bacterium commonly found in the human gut biome that grows anaerobically. [8] The general size ranges from .8 to 2 micrometers in length with rounded ends.