Clostridium estertheticum

Clostridium estertheticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Division:	Firmicutes
Class:	Clostridia
Family:	Clostridiaceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	Cl. estertheticum
Binomial name
Clostridium estertheticum Collins et al. 1993 emend. Spring et al. 2003

Clostridium estertheticum is an anaerobic, psychrophilic, motile, gram-positive bacterium. Cl. estertheticum reproduces by sporulation.

References

• Collins, M.D.; Rodrigues, U.M.; Dainty, R.H.; Edwards, R.A.; Roberts, T.A. (15 September) [1992], "Taxonomic studies on a psychrophilic Clostridium from vacuum-packed beef: description of Clostridium estertheticum sp. nov.", FEMS Microbiology Letters 75 (2–3): 235–40, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1383083 
• Clostridium estertheticum: Collins et al. 1993 emend. Spring et al. 2003 at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
• UniProt. "Clostridium estertheticum" (HTML). http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/238834. Retrieved 2011-01-27. 

External links

• Clostridium estertheticum at the Encyclopedia of Life