''Slackia equolifaciens'' is an

equol Equol (4',7-isoflavandiol) is an isoflavandiolThe structures of 7,4’-dihydroxy-isoflavan and its precursors is shown iStructural Elucidation of Hydroxylated Metabolites of the Isoflavan Equol by GC/MS and HPLC/MSby Corinna E. Rüfer, Hansruedi G ...

-producing bacterium from the genus of ''

Slackia ''Slackia'' is a genus of Actinomycetota, in the family Coriobacteriaceae The Coriobacteriaceae a family of Actinomycetota The ''Actinomycetota'' (or ''Actinobacteria'') are a phylum of all gram-positive bacteria. They can be terrest ...

'' which has been isolated from human faeces from

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Bacteria described in 2010 Actinomycetota {{Actinobacteria-stub