Clostridium innocuum

Clostridium innocuum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Division:	Firmicutes
Class:	Clostridia
Family:	Clostridiaceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	Cl. innocuum
Binomial name
Clostridium innocuum Smith and King 1962

Clostridium innocuum (CLOIN) is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium, which reproduces by sporulation.

References

• Smith, Louis D.S.; King, Elizabeth (April) [1962], "Clostridium innocuum, sp. n., a sporeforming anaerobe isolated from human infections.", Journal of Bacteriology 83: 938–9, PMC 279386, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=279386 
• Clostridium innocuum: Smith and King 1962 at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
• UniProt. "Clostridium innocuum" (HTML). http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/1522. Retrieved 2011-01-27. 

External links

• Clostridium innocuum at the Encyclopedia of Life