''Porphyromonas canoris'' is a
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...
, obligately
anaerobic
Anaerobic means "living, active, occurring, or existing in the absence of free oxygen", as opposed to aerobic which means "living, active, or occurring only in the presence of oxygen." Anaerobic may also refer to:
* Anaerobic adhesive, a bonding a ...
, non-
spore
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-forming and non-motile bacterium from the genus of
Porphyromonas
''Porphyromonas'' is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, obligately anaerobic and non-motile genus from the family of Porphyromonadaceae. There were 16 different Porphyromonas species documented as of 2015 which reside in both animal and human r ...
which has been isolated from
subgingival plaque from dogs.
References
External links
Type strain of ''Porphyromonas canoris'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteroidia
Bacteria described in 1994
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