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Fictibacillus arsenicus, also known as Bacillus arsenicus, is a bacterium. It is Gram-positive, motile, endospore-forming, rod-shaped and arsenic-resistant. Its type strain is Con a/3 (=MTCC 4380=DSM 15822=JCM 12167).

References

1. Parte, A.C. "Fictibacillus". LPSN.
2. Glaeser SP, Dott W, Busse HJ, Kämpfer P (January 2013). "Fictibacillus phosphorivorans gen. nov. sp. nov. and proposal to reclassify Bacillus arsenicus, Bacillus barbaricus, Bacillus macauensis, Bacillus nanhaiensis, Bacillus rigui, Bacillus solisalsi and B. gelatini into the genus Fictibacillus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 8): 2934–44. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.049171-0. PMID 23355698. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
3. Shivaji, S. (2005). "Bacillus arsenicus sp. nov., an arsenic-resistant bacterium isolated from a siderite concretion in West Bengal, India". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (3): 1123–1127. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63476-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 15879243.

Further reading

• Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250–2251.
• Ljungdahl, Lars G. (2003). Biochemistry and physiology of anaerobic bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-95592-5.
• Berkeley, Roger, et al., eds. Applications and systematics of bacillus and relatives. Wiley. com, 2008.

External links

• Type strain of Fictibacillus arsenicus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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