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Clostridium thermocellum JW20 (ATCC 31549) is a coculture with Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus
M Erbeznik1, C R Jones, K A Dawson
1Department of Animal Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40546-0215, USA. milerbe@pop.uky.edu
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
A PCR assay based on 16S rRNA sequence differences among four thermophilic anaerobic bacterial strains was used to demonstrate contamination of Clostridium thermocellum JW20 (ATCC 31549) with a Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus strain. Therefore, we suggest that interpretation of experimental results with C. thermocellum JW20 be viewed with caution.