@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-20-2-175, author = "HOFSTAD, TOR", title = "Leptotrichia buccalis a Gram-negative bacterium", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "1970", volume = "20", number = "2", pages = "175-177", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-20-2-175", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-20-2-175", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "ABSTRACT Oral strains of Leptotrichia buccalis (Robin) Trevisan 1879, 138 (Basionym Leptothrix buccalis Robin 1853, 394) were found to be Gram-negative, on the basis of cell wall morphology and chemical composition. The G-C ratio 34 mole per cent places L. buccalis in a group with the genera Sphaerophorus and Fusobacterium in the family Bacteroidaceae.", }