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Microbacterium

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Microbacterium
Microbacterium gubbeenense on agar plate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Microbacteriaceae
Genus: Microbacterium
Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)[1][2]
Type species
Microbacterium lacticum
Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species

See text.

Synonyms[3][4]
  • Aureobacterium Collins et al. 1983

Microbacterium is a genus of bacteria in the family Microbacteriaceae.[1][2] Microbacteria are common contaminants of laboratory reagents, which can lead to their being misrepresented in microbiome data.[5]

Species

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Microbacterium comprises the following species:[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Orla-Jensen S. (1919). The Lactic Acid Bacteria. Copenhagen: Host & Sons.
  2. ^ a b Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. (1980). "Approved lists of bacterial names". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 30: 225–420. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
  3. ^ a b Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Microbacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Takeuchi M, Hatano K. (1998). "Union of the genera Microbacterium Orla-Jensen and Aureobacterium Collins et al. in a redefined genus Microbacterium". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 48 (3): 739–747. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-3-739. PMID 9734028.
  5. ^ Salter SJ, Cox MJ, Turek EM, Calus ST, Cookson WO, Moffatt MF, Turner P, Parkhill J, Loman NJ, Walker AW. (2014). "Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses". BMC Biol. 12: 87. doi:10.1186/s12915-014-0087-z. PMC 4228153. PMID 25387460.