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Clostridium leptum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Clostridiaceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	C. leptum
Binomial name
Clostridium leptum Moore et al., 1976

Clostridium leptum is a bacterium species in the genus Clostridium.

It forms a subgroup of human fecal microbiota. Its reduction relative to other members of the gut microbiota has been observed in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

The genome of C. leptum has been sequenced.

References

1. Moore, W. E. C; Johnson, J. L.; Holdeman, L. V. (1976). "Emendation of Bacteroidaceae and Butyrivibrio and Descriptions Of desulfomonas gen. nov. And Ten New Species in the Genera Desulfomonas, Butyrivibrio, Eubacterium, Clostridium, and Ruminococcus". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 26 (2): 238. doi:10.1099/00207713-26-2-238.
2. Shen, J.; Zhang, B.; Wei, G.; Pang, X.; Wei, H.; Li, M.; Zhang, Y.; Jia, W.; Zhao, L. (2006). "Molecular Profiling of the Clostridium leptum Subgroup in Human Fecal Microflora by PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Clone Library Analysis". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72 (8): 5232–8. Bibcode:2006ApEnM..72.5232S. doi:10.1128/AEM.00151-06. PMC 1538713. PMID 16885270.
3. Kabeerdoss, Jayakanthan; Sankaran, Vijayalakshmi; Pugazhendhi, Srinivasan; Ramakrishna, Balakrishnan S (2013). "Clostridium leptum group bacteria abundance and diversity in the fecal microbiota of patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A case–control study in India". BMC Gastroenterology. 13: 20. doi:10.1186/1471-230X-13-20. PMC 3565871. PMID 23351032.

External links

"Clostridium leptum". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

• Type strain of Clostridium leptum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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