Bacillus infantis

Han, Ji-Hye, Joung, Yochan, Kim, Tae-Su, Bae, Jin-Woo, Cha, Chang-Jun, Chun, Jongsik, Im, Wan-Taek, Jahng, Kwang Yeop, Jeon, Che Ok, Joh, Kiseong, Seong, Chi Nam, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Cho, Jang-Cheon & Kim, Seung Bum, 2015, Report on 24 unrecorded bacterial species of Korea belonging to the phylum Firmicutes, Journal of Species Research 4 (2), pp. 127-136 : 132

Description of Bacillus infantis J29

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, nonpigmented, and rod shaped. Colonies are opaque, round, smooth, convex and shell pink colored after 3 days on MA at 25°C. Based on API 20NE, positive for esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase and β ­galactosidase, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase and urease. D­Glucose, Dmannose, D­mannitol, N ­acetyl­glucosamine, D­maltose, potassium gluconate and malic acid are utilized. Does not utilize L­arabinose, capric acid, adipic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Oxidase activity is positive. Strain J29 (= NIBRBA0000) was isolated from seawater, Gwangyang, Korea.