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: Actinomycetia
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.
  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.