Paraclostridium benzoelyticum CBA

Lee, Changsu, Kim, Joon Yong, Kim, Yeon Bee, Kim, Juseok, Ahn, Seung Woo & Roh, Hye Seon Song and Seong Woon, 2020, A report of 37 unrecorded anaerobic bacterial species isolated from the Geum River in South Korea, Journal of Species Research 9 (2), pp. 105-116 : 113

Description of Paraclostridium benzoelyticum CBA 7529

Cells are obligate anaerobic, Gram-stain-positive, non-pigmented, and rod-shaped. Colonies are irregular, flat, and curled after incubation for three days on reinforced clostridial medium at 25℃. Positive for glucose fermentation. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase, urease, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, and β -galactosidase activity. Does not utilize D- glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, potassium gluconate, D- maltose, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain CBA7529 (= NNIBR2019644 BA29) was isolated from a sediment sample, Jangsu-gun , Jeollabuk-do, Korea .