Roseburia faecis

Roseburia faecis is a bacterium first isolated from human faeces. It is anaerobic, gram-negative or Gram-variable, slightly curved rod-shaped and motile. The cells range in size from 0.5-1.5 to 5.0 micrometres. M72/1(T)=DSM 16840(T)=NCIMB 14031(T)) is the type strain.[1]

Roseburia faecis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Clostridiales
Family:	Lachnospiraceae
Genus:	Roseburia
Species:	R. faecis Duncan et al. 2006
Binomial name
Roseburia faecis

References

1. Sylvia H. Duncan; Rustam I. Aminov; Karen P. Scott; Petra Louis; Thaddeus B. Stanton & Harry J. Flint (October 2006). "Proposal of Roseburia faecis sp. nov., Roseburia hominis sp. nov. and Roseburia inulinivorans sp. nov., based on isolates from human faeces". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (Pt 10): 2437–2441. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64098-0. PMID 17012576.

Further reading

• Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250-2251.
• Martínez, Inés; Lattimer, James M; Hubach, Kelcie L; Case, Jennifer A; Yang, Junyi; Weber, Casey G; Louk, Julie A; Rose, Devin J; Kyureghian, Gayaneh; Peterson, Daniel A; Haub, Mark D; Walter, Jens (2012). "Gut microbiome composition is linked to whole grain-induced immunological improvements". The ISME Journal. 7 (2): 269–280. doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.104. ISSN 1751-7362. PMC 3554403. PMID 23038174.
• Hatziioanou, Diane; Mayer, Melinda J.; Duncan, Sylvia H.; Flint, Harry J.; Narbad, Arjan (2013). "A representative of the dominant human colonic Firmicutes, Roseburia faecis M72/1, forms a novel bacteriocin-like substance". Anaerobe. 23: 5–8. doi:10.1016/j.anaerobe.2013.07.006. ISSN 1075-9964. PMID 23916720.

External links

• LPSN
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• Type strain of Roseburia faecis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase