@article{mbs:/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-3-3-483, author = "Hill, L. R. and Snell, J. J. S. and Lapa, S. P.", title = "Identification And Characterisation Of Bacteroides Corrodens", journal= "Journal of Medical Microbiology", year = "1970", volume = "3", number = "3", pages = "483-491", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-3-3-483", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-3-3-483", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1473-5644", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "SUMMARY Eight recently isolated strains of Bacteroides corrodens, seven of which originated in Britain, were compared with two strains of this species from the National Collection of Type Cultures. The principal characteristics of B. corrodens were: Gram-negative, nonmotile ovals and rods; usually grows as depressed or pitting colonies on agar media, but also produces non-pitting variants; prefers CO2 -enriched atmospheres or anaerobic conditions on primary isolation, but becomes a facultative anaerobe on subculture in the laboratory; catalase-negative; oxidase-positive; nitrate reduced to nitrite; arginine dihydrolase not produced, lysine and ornithine decarboxylase produced; acid not produced from carbohydrates; otherwise biochemically inert. The DNA-base composition was determined by the melting-temperature method and was found to range from 56.2 to 58.2 per cent. GC.", }