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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Lachnospiraceae |
| Genus: | Roseburia |
| Species: | R. faecis
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| Binomial name | |
| Roseburia faecis Duncan et al. 2006
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References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- 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.
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