- Source: Virgibacillus alimentarius
Virgibacillus alimentarius is a bacterium first isolated from a traditional Korean food, hence its name. It is Gram-positive, rod-shaped, motile, endospore-forming and halophilic, with J18T (=KACC 14624T =JCM 16994T) as the type strain.
References
Further reading
Da Silva, Neusely, et al. Microbiological Examination Methods of Food and Water: A Laboratory Manual. CRC Press, 2012.
Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250–2251.
External links
LPSN
Type strain of Virgibacillus alimentarius at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
