''Companilactobacillus kimchii'' is a bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacterium of the genus ''

Companilactobacillus ''Companilactobacillus'' is a genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy ...

''. It is named for and found in the Korean fermented-vegetable food kimchi. The

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of ''C. kimchii'' are short, slender and rod-shaped. The bacterium is Gram-positive, non-

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-forming and non- motile.

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