''Tepidimonas fonticaldi'' is a
Gram-negative
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,
thermophilic
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, motile
bacterium
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with a single polar
flagellum
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A microorganism may have f ...
from the
genus
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Tepidimonas
''Tepidimonas'' is a genus of Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, oxidase- and catalase-positive, rod-shaped, slightly thermophilic bacteria from the family Comamonadaceae
The Comamonadaceae are a family of the Betaproteobacteria.Willems A., J. ...
'', which was isolated from a hot spring water sample from the Antun hot spring in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
.
References
External links
Type strain of ''Tepidimonas fonticaldi'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Comamonadaceae
Bacteria described in 2013
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