Romboutsia hominis

Kang, Heeyoung, Kim, Haneul, Yi, Hana, Kim, Wonyong, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum, Seong, Chi Nam, Kim, Seung Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun & Joh, Che Ok Jeon and Kiseong, 2021, A report of 43 unrecorded bacterial species within the phyla Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes isolated from various sources from Korea in 2019, Journal of Species Research 10 (2), pp. 117-133 : 130

Description of Romboutsia hominis CAU 1562

Gram-stain-positive, anaerobic, flagellated, short rod-shaped bacterium (0.3-0.6 μm wide, 0.3-0.9 μm long). Colonies grown on nutrient agar are cream, circular, smooth, and shiny. Oxidase activity is negative. In the API 20NE test, cells are positive for indole production; glucose fermentation; hydorlysis of aesculin and gelatin; and assimilation of D- glucose, but negative for nitrate reduction; activity of arginine dihydrolase, urease, and β -galactosidase; and assimilation of L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid. Strain CAU 1562 (= NIBRBAC000503233) was isolated from a soil sample collected from Incheon, Republic of Korea (37°31 ʹ 56.3 ʺ N, 126°25 ʹ 43.5 ʺ E).