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THE sulphate-reducing bacteria at present available in pure culture are Desulphovibrio desulphuricans, its aestuarii variant1, the thermophilic Clostridium nigrificans (earlier known as D. thermodesulphuricans 2) and the new species D. orientis 3. The species D. rubentschickii and its variant anomalous, able to utilize acetate and/or butyrate4, have so far defied re-isolation.
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POSTGATE, J. A Diagnostic Reaction of Desulphovibrio desulphuricans . Nature 183, 481–482 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183481b0
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