Helicobacter rodentium

Helicobacter rodentium is a bacterium in the Helicobacteraceae family, Campylobacterales order.[1] It is a spiral-shaped bacterium with a bipolar, single, nonsheathed flagellum. It is resistant to cephalothin and nalidixic acid. Its type strain is MIT 95-1707 (= ATCC 700285). Its name refers to the species first being isolated from mice.

Helicobacter rodentium
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H. rodentium
Binomial name
Helicobacter rodentium
Shen et al., 1997

References

  1. Shen, Z.; Fox, J. G.; Dewhirst, F. E.; Paster, B. J.; Foltz, C. J.; Yan, L.; Shames, B.; Perry, L. (1997). "Helicobacter rodentium sp. nov., a Urease-Negative Helicobacter Species Isolated from Laboratory Mice". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (3): 627–634. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-627. ISSN 0020-7713.

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