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  • Other non-fermenting bacilli

    Other non-fermenting bacilli

    FLAVOBACTERIUM I – GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: For years, the genus Flavobacterium presented very heterogeneous: indeed he gathered gram-negative bacilli or positive, stationary or mobile, to ciliature peritrichous, bacilli whose only common property was yellow pigmentation of their cultures. In the latest edition of “Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology,” 1984, the genus Flavobacterium was redefined as comprising…