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A marine bacterium able to corrode steel
<b><i>Dethiosulfovibrio peptidovorans</i> DSM 11002.</B> This strain (DSM 11002; SEBR 4207) is the type strain for the species. <i>Dethiosulfovibrio peptidovorans</i> DSM 11002 was isolated from a corroding steel pipe from an offshore oil well near Congo. This organism is able to corrode mild steel rapidly (about 1 cm per year) in the presence of thiosulfate.