| Enterocloster clostridioformis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Lachnospirales |
| Family: | Lachnospiraceae |
| Genus: | Enterocloster |
| Species: | E. clostridioformis |
| Binomial name | |
| Enterocloster clostridioformis (Burri and Ankersmit 1906) Haas and Blanchard 2020 [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
Enterocloster clostridioformis, formerly known as Clostridium clostridioforme, is an anaerobic, motile, Gram-positive bacterium. [2]
E. clostridioformis are rod-shaped bacteria which cannot grow in the presence of oxygen. [3] While Clostridium species have cell walls that resemble gram-positive bacteria, E. clostridioformis often appears negative by Gram stain. [4]
The organism now classified as E. clostridioformis was first identified in the 1950s in human and animal feces and assigned to the genus of Gram-negative non-spore-forming bacteria Bacteroides . [4] In subsequent years, these bacteria were shown to form spores, causing them to be reclassified in the genus Clostridium. [4] Most recently this species has been reclassified as E. clostridioformis based on phylogeny.
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