Microbacterium

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Microbacterium
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Microbacterium gubbeenense on agar plate
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetes
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Microbacteriaceae
Genus: Microbacterium
Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) [1] [2]
Type species
Microbacterium lacticum
Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species

See text.

Synonyms [3] [4]
  • AureobacteriumCollins et al. 1983

Microbacterium is a genus of bacteria in the family Microbacteriaceae. [1] [2] Microbacteria are common contaminants of laboratory reagents, which can lead to their being misrepresented in microbiome data. [5]

Species

Microbacterium comprises the following species: [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Orla-Jensen S. (1919). The Lactic Acid Bacteria. Copenhagen: Host & Sons.[ page needed ]
  2. 1 2 Skerman VB, McGowan V, Sneath PH (1980). "Approved lists of bacterial names". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 30: 225–420. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
  3. 1 2 Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Microbacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  4. ↑ Takeuchi M, Hatano K (1998). "Union of the genera Microbacterium Orla-Jensen and Aureobacterium Collins et al. in a redefined genus Microbacterium". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 48 (3): 739–747. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-3-739. PMID   9734028.
  5. ↑ Salter SJ, Cox MJ, Turek EM, Calus ST, Cookson WO, Moffatt MF, Turner P, Parkhill J, Loman NJ, Walker AW (2014). "Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses". BMC Biol. 12 87. doi: 10.1186/s12915-014-0087-z . PMC   4228153 . PMID   25387460.