Overview

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Flaviflexus massiliensis is a Gram-positive, aerobic, coccobacillus bacterium. It has been detected in at least 1 gut microbiome compilation study or metastudy. Flaviflexus massiliensis is probably a rare gut coloniser. (Traore2016a)

This organism has been recovered from the faeces of a young girl from Niger suffering from kwashiorkor. Pathogenicity status unknown, or very unlikely to be pathogenic. A possible gut commensal.

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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS (Traore2016a);

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	Character	Response
🌡	Temperature tolerance:	grows at 37℃;
	Active enzymes:	catalase;

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References

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SPECIFIC REFERENCES FOR FLAVIFLEXUS MASSILIENSIS

Traore2016a - 'Flaviflexus massiliensis', a new bacterial species isolated from the human gut.

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GUT MICROBIOME COMPILATIONS AND METASTUDIES FOR FLAVIFLEXUS MASSILIENSIS

Lagier2016 - Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics.

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