Desulfitobacterium metallireducens

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Clostridiales
Family:
Genus:	Desulfitobacterium
Species:	D. metallireducens
Binomial name
Desulfitobacterium metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens is an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Its type strain is 853-15A(T) (= ATCC BAA-636(T)). It was first isolated from a uranium-contaminated quifer sediment.

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