Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Acidimicrobiia |
Order: | Acidimicrobiales |
Family: | Acidimicrobiaceae |
Genus: | Acidimicrobium Clark and Norris 1996[1] |
Species: | A. ferrooxidans
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Binomial name | |
Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans Clark and Norris 1996[1]
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Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans is a bacterium, the type species of its genus.[1] It is a ferrous-iron-oxidizing, moderately thermophilic and acidophilic bacterium. A complete genome of one strain, DSM 10331 isolated in Iceland from hot spring runoff water,[2] has been resolved.[3][4]