A WEB-SURFER'S GUIDE TO BACTERIA ASSOCIATED WITH INFECTIONS IN HUMANS

Slackia

Species associated with infection - S. exigua

Associated infections - periodontitis

Notes - previously Eubacterium exiguum

References - Wade, W.G., Downes, J., Dymock, D., Hiom, S.J., Weightman, A.J., Dewhirst, F.E., Paster, B.J., Tzellas, N., Coleman, B. (1999). The family Coriobacteriaceae: reclassification of Eubacterium exiguum (Poco et al. 1996) and Peptostreptococcus heliotrinreducens (Lanigan 1976) as Slackia exigua gen. nov., comb. nov. and Slackia heliotrinireducens gen. nov., comb. nov., and Eubacterium lentum (Prevot 1938) as Eggerthella lenta gen. nov., comb. nov. Int. J. syst. Bacteriol. 49, 595-600.

 

 

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