Clostridium lavalense

Clostridium lavalense
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Division:	Firmicutes
Class:	Clostridia
Family:	Clostridiaceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	Cl. lavalense
Binomial name
	Clostridium lavalense; Domingo et al. 2009

Clostridium lavalense is an anaerobic, motile, spore-forming, rod-shaped, gram-positive bacterium first isolated from human feces.[1] The epithet "lavalense" refers to the institution, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

References

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. Retrieved 2011-12-26.

External links

"Clostridium lavalense: Domingo et al. 2009". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
UniProt. "Clostridium lavalense". Retrieved 2011-12-25.
Type strain of Clostridium lavalense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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[1] 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. Retrieved 2011-12-26.