Dactylosporangium aurantiacum
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dactylosporangium-aurantiacum-259-8722041
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Dactylosporangium aurantiacum
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Dactylosporangium aurantiacum is a Gram-positive soil-based actinobacterium in the family Micromonosporaceae. Like all Dactylosporangium species, aurantiacum is aerobic and mesophilic. One subspecies, hamdenesis, produces a number of 18-membered macrolide antibiotics called tiacumicins as a byproduct of fermentation. One of these, tiacumicin B, commonly known as fidaxomicin, has narrow-spectrum bacteriocidal action against Gram-positive anaerobic bacteria, including Clostridium difficile.
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Species of bacterium
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylosporangium_aurantiacum
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2024-01-17T22:45:37Z
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