title: Taxonomic studies on a psychrophilic Clostridium from vacuum-packed beef: description of Clostridium estertheticum sp. nov.
abstract: Taxonomic studies were performed on an anaerobic Gram-positive, spore-forming, psychrophilic bacterium originally isolated from spoiled vacuum-packed refrigerated beef. Based on the present finding it is proposed that this unknown psychrophilic bacterium be classified as a new species of the genus Clostridium, as Clostridium estertheticum sp. nov. The type strain is NCIMB 12511.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Reading, UK.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: U M
authors.initials: UM
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Dainty
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D003013:Clostridium / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005519:Food Preservation; D008460:Meat / Q000382:microbiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D014618:Vacuum
chemical_list: D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S