A versatile medium for cultivating methanogenic archaea.

A versatile medium for cultivating methanogenic archaea.

BACKGROUND: Methanobrevibacter smithii, Methanobrevibacter oralis, Methanosphaera stadtmanae, Methanomassilicoccus luminyensis and Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus have been cultured from human digestive microbiota. Each one of these fastidious methanogenic archaea requires a specific medium for it...

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Main Authors: Saber Khelaifia, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3629087?pdf=render

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