''Leuconostoc citreum'' is a
vancomycin
Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections. It is recommended intravenously as a treatment for complicated skin infections, bloodstream infections, endocarditis, bone and joint infections, ...
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resistant,
Gram-positive
In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall.
Gram-positive bacte ...
, coccus-shaped bacterium, with type strain NCDO 1837.
Its genome has been sequenced.
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External links
LPSN*
Type strain of ''Leuconostoc citreum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Lactobacillaceae
Bacteria described in 1989
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