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SUBMITTER: Saunders E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3035228 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Standards in genomic sciences 20090928 2
Eggerthella lenta (Eggerth 1935) Wade et al. 1999, emended Würdemann et al. 2009 is the type species of the genus Eggerthella, which belongs to the actinobacterial family Coriobacteriaceae. E. lenta is a Gram-positive, non-motile, non-sporulating pathogenic bacterium that can cause severe bacteremia. The strain described in this study has been isolated from a rectal tumor in 1935. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the complete genome sequence, and annotation. This is ...[more]