Enterocloster lavalensis

Enterocloster lavalensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Clostridia
Order: Eubacteriales
Family: Lachnospiraceae
Genus: Enterocloster
Species:
E. lavalensis
Binomial name
Enterocloster lavalensis
(Domingo et al. 2009) Haas and Blanchard 2020
Synonyms
  • Clostridium lavalense

Enterocloster lavalensis, formerly Clostridium lavalense is an anaerobic, motile, spore-forming, rod-shaped, gram-positive bacterium first isolated from human feces. The epithet "lavalense" refers to the institution, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

References

  1. ↑ Page Species: Enterocloster lavalensis on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  2. ↑ Domingo, M. C.; Huletsky, A.; Boissinot, M.; Hélie, M. C.; Bernal, A.; Bernard, K. A.; Grayson, M. L.; Picard, J.; Bergeron, M. G. (2009). "Clostridium lavalense sp. nov., a glycopeptide-resistant species isolated from human faeces". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (3): 498–503. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.001958-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 19244429.